[Social-Desktop] Social Desktop Mailing List

[George McLachlan]

I agree with you, when I talk about Twitter I was refering to this as 
something which sparked my interest in SocialDesktop. I never really had any 
plans to implement or suggest standardisation on Twitter. 

I had a couple of points and it was meant to kick off a discussion. However I 
still believe in order to encourage people to integrate into the desktop, we 
need to do some of the heavy lifting for them.

Looking over the spec I see that provider files allow us some degree of 
abstraction. What I wouldn't want to see is this barrier to writing an app 
because people have to reinvent the wheel every time. 

I do agree that we need to think about, well quite a lot of things before we 
consider this, but I still think it's worth bearing in mind. 

George

 


On Friday 27 March 2009 16:08:16 Frank Karlitschek wrote:
> 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-servic
> >>es
> >>
> >> 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
> karlitschek at kde.org

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