> These are reasonable questions (and many of them have "yes" as the > answer ;-)) but I have a more > fundamental objection here: the desktop is just NOT the place for such > a functionality to originate from. The very > concept of a fixed desktop that resides on a physical piece of > hardware that you own feels so 20th century > to me. One way or the other the online identity issue is going to be > settled. For contenders, though, I'd > rather look at: factotum or things like OAuth.
X11 way back when, for all its faults, was more network centric than openview or anything that came after. - erik
