Re: GNOME online desktop - (some of the possible) next steps

[Bryan Clark <bclark redhat com>]

Hi ~

(so late... email problems)

Alberto Ruiz wrote:
> 2007/8/8, Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com <mailto:hp redhat com>>:
>
>     Rodrigo Moya wrote:
>     > On Sun, 2007-07-22 at 10:57 -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote:
>     >> Hi,
>     >>
>     >> Some thoughts on near-term goals and steps to get things
>     rolling (for
>     >> those who want to play):
>     >>
>     > ...
>     >
>     > I miss the 'shared storage' thing in your list, like moving the
>     > themes/icons/backgrounds from art.gnome.org
>     <http://art.gnome.org> to be part of
>     > online.gnome.org <http://online.gnome.org>. Any near future
>     plans for that?
>
>     I don't know of anyone working on anything like that yet.
>
>
> That's not an easy task, AGO3 (the art.gnome.org 
> <http://art.gnome.org> web app) is being written at the moment, a feed 
> mashup on online.gnome.org <http://online.gnome.org> might work there 
> and maybe some API to handle ratings and popularity, but throwing the 
> whole work of AGO3 to start from zero on o.g.o seems a pretty bad idea 
> to me.
An excellent advantage that the online desktop server project has in 
being open source is that it doesn't have to re-implement any other 
existing service.  MySpace and other proprietary sites will continually 
purchase or build new extensions (like video and photo services) to 
bring into their fold.  Our blessing (and our curse) is that we'll 
always be offering choice of services from many different providers 
(flickr for photos, youtube for videos).  The online desktop server 
service should be pointing to the user chosen service from a list of 
services that provide the best experience.  Since AGO3 is being written 
to provide an online storage for backgrounds and themes, the online 
desktop would simply point to the storage locations provided by 
art.gnome.org. 

In the video I saw of your prototype I believe it makes perfect sense to 
simply store the URI of a person's background / theme from the new a.g.o 
such that if they logged in from a new machine that setting would be 
preserved and restored.

~ Bryan