Being able to replace Mugshot-as-desktop-server is neither here nor there. Sure, from the Freedom perspective we don't want to rely on a particular server [1], but that's not what's going to really affect the desktop experience.
What's important from the user experience is not having to rely on Mugshot-as-social-network. Virtually none of my friends use mugshot - they all use facebook. So what would actually make this work is server-to-server features - the desktop may only need to talk to mugshot, but mugshot needs to tie [EMAIL PROTECTED]@mugshot.org to my facebook, msn, and jabber accounts. These social networks *also* have a variety of presence information, friends, social networks, photos, RSS feeds, statuses, and so on depending on the service. I know that mugshot does more than, say, myspace. But if a user has to get all of his friends using mugshot instead of (eg) myspace, then the end result is that the user can't use mugshot. Or the online desktop. Hope I managed to get a point across in that ramble :) -- Andrew Havoc Pennington wrote: > Though we want to keep things cleanly engineered so someone could > replace Mugshot, at the same time using Mugshot is the only practical > way to get things going IMO, for a variety of reasons. Some of the major > ones: > - we need an open source server under the control of the development > community, because web services provided by existing sites and > companies aren't sufficient. We want to use what exists - say > Flickr for photos - but then be able to fill in gaps. So for example, > we had to write our own browser for open source apps at > http://mugshot.org/applications > - it's an admin'd, hosted, clustered application server instance that > has both jsp and xmpp channels, and any server-side function can > be rapidly added to it; doing a new server-side function from scratch > has *a lot* of overhead vs. adding to Mugshot (and also has end user > overhead, e.g. signing up for the new server) > - because it has web-only and Windows versions, social features need > not assume that all my friends use Linux > - the "data model" of the Mugshot "meta social network" or whatever you > want to call it is what we think we want user experience wise, vs. > say a "my contact database" data model. For example, people choose > their own photo and nick, and maintain their own addresses, you don't > have to import or edit these things. > - we already have major functionality slices such as tracking your > friends' photos and feeds, tracking who's listening to what, > partially-complete file sharing, and social application > browsing/installing/launching > [1] especially since mugshot is under teh c0ntr0l of redhat, and redhat are evil and going to take over the world with killer rabbits, remember? _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
