On Sun, Jul 07, 2002 at 03:37:11AM -0500, SI Reasoning wrote:
> One of the strengths/weaknesses of Linux compared to Windows is that
> there are so many different programs to do the same thing.
So - is it a strength or a weakness ? :-)
> One way to make this more fluid on the desktop would be to have
> unified bookmarks/shortcuts, addressbook and calendar. This would
> allow for setting up the desktop icons in KDE and having it
> auto-magically the same in Gnome. Adding a bookmark to the toolbar
> or any other directory in Galeon, and having it in the same place in
> konqueror, mozilla, opera and lynx/links. Typing contact info in
> evolution and having it also in kmail, sylpheed, etc. Typing in
> event info in korganizer and also having it appear in evolution,
> ical, etc.
I think that most users don't use so much applications. They choose
the one they like and use it. Many other users will simply want to
turn it OFF too - because they want different bookmarks and different
addressbooks in different apps...
> If it is not too complex,
I think it is. And to do it correctly, you must solve the situations
like running two different browsers at the same time while editing
bookmarks (or simply browsing == updating history) in both of them, so
you don't loose the changes from the first or the second one. This is
probably impossible without (non-trivial) explicit support in the
application itself.
> maybe unified url history and a unified cache for web browsers. If
> it is possible to have a unified cache, it will save a bit of hard
> drive memory.
Every browser uses different format of its disc cache and different
strategies how to use it. Use a proxy server (squid) for that. If you
want unified addressbook, use LDAP (openldap). If you want unified
bookmarks, use some bookmarks manager (lynx2links) or most of the
browsers can explicitely import/export Netscape bookmarks. And I think
that using 2 different time organizers (and wanting both to contain
the same data) is almost a non-sense.
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