data base for desktop data (couchdb?)

["Luis Matos" <luis matos ua pt>]

Hello there!

I am writing this message because for some time i have 
been seeing every
gtk application (or gnome application) to use its own data 
backend. a
few examples:
 - evolution has tasks, notes, calendar, email and 
contacts trough
evolution-data-server (right?)
 - tomboy has notes
 - GTG has tasks

so, if i have a task in evolution, i don't have it in GTG. 
A note in
tomboy does not appear in evolution.

I don't really know if couchdb is going to provide these 
features, but i
think it is time to have a real unified data backend.

The same happens with feed readers, etc, etc, etc.

Evolution, for example, is a big FAT app, but it has all 
in the same
place.
But, there are other things that we can have having 
diferent apps running
at the same time, mainly applets such as tomboy's.

so ... what are you're opinions?

thanks
Luis Matos