Re: "All Software Should Be Network Aware"

[Julian K.Missig <julian jabber org>]

Dave Smith and I talked about this a lot in the early days of Gabber 
development. Also talked to Andy Hertzfeld about it one time. There are 
some pretty interesting things one could do.

Generally, it seemed like the best solution would be to have a Jabber 
client daemon at the center, and when you log into the desktop you're 
also logging into Jabber. There are still a few Jabber people 
interested in creating the pieces to make this possible.

Julian

On Thursday, Jul 3, 2003, at 14:11 US/Eastern, Mike Hearn wrote:

> I'd be wary of any article that claims Apple get open file formats.
>
> That said, I've thought often about Jabber integration with the 
> desktop.
> You could do some amazingly cool things with that, have panel launchers
> linked to user presence so that they light up when people are online 
> and
> clicking them opens the chat window, being able to drop files so that 
> they
> "embed" into the chat area so the text wraps around the object, have a
> simple API to expose personal services (perhaps a Bonobo or DBUS
> extension) via Jabber so that, for instance, games can easily install
> "Play with me" extensions etc.
>
> There are lots of things you can do. The network integration talked 
> about
> there is sort of similar but machine based rather than user based, they
> both have their place.
>
> Perhaps there should be a Gnome blue sky page, like Mozilla used to 
> have
> in the early days, in fact it's still there but AFAIK not linked to 
> from
> anywhere: see http://www.mozilla.org/blue-sky/
>
> On Thu, 03 Jul 2003 16:02:55 +1000, Sir Jeff Waugh scribed thus:
> > GNOME: GNU Network Object Model Environment
> >
> >   http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/3422
> >
> > Thought for the day.
> >
> > - Jeff
>
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