[Social-Desktop] Social Desktop Mailing List

[Frank Karlitschek]

Hi George,

like Sebas I think we have to play around with the new ideas and  
functionality first before we try to standardizes the data model on  
the client side. I think in the future we might put the microblogging  
stuff into an own kde library. But I think this is too early at the  
moment.

One more think. The "activities" API of the open collaboration spec is  
not only about microblogging. I´m not sure we need another twitter  
clone. ;-)

The idea is to deliver more information about what is going on in my  
friends network to the users. So the users get stuff like, there is a  
new version of my favorite application, someone visited my homepage,  
my friend wrote a new blog entry, there is an interesting KDE event in  
my region, there is a new KDE user in my regions and also  
microblogging. :-)

So I´m not sure we want to standardizes this with twitter. ;-)

What do you think?

Cheers
Frank


On 25.03.2009, at 20:22, George McLachlan wrote:

> Hi Frank,
>              Albeit I have only had the chance to skim over the  
> spec. I
> should find some time tonight to have a good look.
>
> So think of this suggestion as a straw man, something that might  
> kick off some
> discussion, and I may be heading in the wrong direction.
>
> I think it would be nice to have a common data model which others  
> could
> inherit from.  I don't really want to tie a client into a set of  
> services,
> while each piece of work could in theory implement their own model  
> there is
> not a lot of reuse there.
>
> While I have been working on this client I have played about with a  
> common
> model. Each service would inherit from it. On top of that all of  
> these child
> classes would return a generic type, in my case I called them  
> IFragment. It is
> then up to the person implementing  the UI to convert them to suit  
> the UI they
> wish to use.
>
> Um, discuss.....(hopefully)
>
> George
>
>
> On Wednesday 25 March 2009 13:49:32 Frank Karlitschek wrote:
>> Hi George,
>>
>> this sounds great. You can never have enough twitter clients. ;-)
>>
>> If you want to try something new, we have a microblogging
>> functionallity on openDesktop.org too. It would be great to have a
>> client for this. check the activity section here:
>> http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/open-collaboration-services
>>
>> What do you think?
>>
>> Cheers
>> Frank
>>
>> On 24.03.2009, at 20:15, George McLachlan wrote:
>>> Hi Frank,
>>>
>>> I was hoping to get involved in some way.  A twitter (or identi.ca)
>>> client
>>> is the new "hello world", and I was going to write one, just as an
>>> introduction to QT and KDE development.
>>>
>>> Doing this got me thinking about other services and integration into
>>> the
>>> desktop. So a quick look round and I found this project.
>>>
>>> George
>>>
>>> On Tuesday 24 March 2009 10:57:18 Frank Karlitschek wrote:
>>>> Hi George,
>>>>
>>>> you are right. The list is very new. so not a lot of activity here
>>>> at
>>>> the moment.
>>>> I plan to post a bit more information about the current state of  
>>>> the
>>>> open collaboration services spec soon.
>>>>
>>>> So hopefully a discussion about the social desktop in kde is
>>>> starting.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> George, what are your plans? Do you plan to get involved with the
>>>> social desktop idea?
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Frank Karlitschek
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