<quote who="Federico Mena Quintero"> > Defining "first-class objects" is very hard in GNOME's context, because we > are not sure what kinds of objects we want to have, nor what kinds of > actions we want to be able to perform among them. It would be very > productive to do some archaeology for the DataRover's APIs and history.
Palm OS research would be worthwhile for similar reasons. Both are old, but *fascinating*. [Yeah, maddog gave me a Data Rover too. ;-)] A great place to start, in terms of worthwhile 'objects' and 'actions' to consider comes from the mantra: People, Events, Documents, Conversations, Getting Laid. - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2007: Sydney, Australia http://lca2007.linux.org.au/ "I'm offering you my body, and you're offering me semantics." - Caitlin, Clerks _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
