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IRC chat on decadence

June 12, 2008 8:24 pm Dave Neary gnome

This IRC conversation, in some sense, sums up all my feelings about the recent decadence  wave running through GNOME.

Me:

It seems like there are lots of interesting directions to go, which would add transversal functionality to GNOME which would be really new & useful. And they’ve been around for years.

Think of a geographically aware desktop, presenting contextual data based on where you are. Or something like Dashboard, presenting contextual data based on what you’re doing. Or something like the project-based desktop, showing only data which is related to a particular project/topic. Or person-based, where your contacts are first-class objects and you’re always aware of who’s around. Or integrating with existing online RESTful services, and (why not?) creating others that meet our standards.

And we have libraries for all of this stuff – GeoClue, Beagle, LeafTag (or something similar), Telepathy.

All you need to do (!) is add useful features based on that information to all of the applications that people use, from email through web, office, communications, games, …

Simple!

ozamosi

I Would do that myself, but I’m busy writing a blog post about that someone should do it.