Re: Online Desktop and GNOME 2.22

[jamie <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 21:02 +0000, Philip Withnall wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 16:22 -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
> > Frederic Crozat wrote:
> > > Hmm, is libcurl really needed ?
> > libcurl is conceptually a dependency in the online desktop application 
> > layer (specifically a panel applet).  Longer term though we should 
> > probably replace the usage of curl here with python.
> 
> Would we really want a potentially core part of the desktop to be
> implemented in Python? :-(
> 

well platform is C in Gnome and I would hope there will be a lib other
apps can use to benefit from all the cool new stuff coming from the
online desktop.

(the UI frontend or applet can remain in python of course but the
interface to the online world should be C if possible)

jamie