Re: RPM and Corba/GNOME

[Jim Pick <jim jimpick com>]

Stephanos Piperoglou <sp249@cam.ac.uk> writes:

> Basically I think it would be a good idea to think modular here. CORBA
> (though I'm not very familiar with it) should give you a basis to operate
> on; but I think it is imperative to get a desktop which deals in the
> following stages:
> 
> (1) Resource location (ideally, I think, URI based... there are URL schemes
> out there for everything from HTTP to geographical location). We get a
> description of the object. In the form of something (CORBA spec? URL?)
> 
> (2) Resource Retrieval. The system parses the location and fires up an
> approporiate retrieval mechanism (http, ftp, local file access, nfs,
> whatever) to get the resource.
> 
> (3) Resource typing. An alternation of external description
> (filename/extension, MIME type etc.) or, failing that, magic number
> detection to map the resource to a certain application.
> 
> (4) Resource handling. Depending on wether we want a view, an edit, a move,
> an embed or whatever we fire up (or communicate with) the appropriate
> application in the appropriate way.

Funny.  I came up with the same 4 major services I'd like to see.  :-)

Cheers,

 - Jim

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