Features of Mugshot, that are implementation specific: (All three would need to be customized for Solaris).
Package management Most popular application reporting (Most popular packages) Desktop client. -Brian On 4/28/07, MC <rac at eastlink.ca> wrote: > > From: http://log.ometer.com/2007-04.html#3 > > It boils down to central online storage for all your data, and programs on > your client to interact with the data. Which is, in some form or another, > the way things will eventually be. > > I think the key thing is less about building the PC applications, and more > about who stores the data and how they do it. Even though Gnome vs KDE > gives me little hope for humanity, building menus isn't really a big > deal. They're just a tiny window into a big world which, in this guy's > case, uses his (or Red Hat's?) Mugshot.org web app. > > As a side note, ideally every programmed solution would have an open and > standard API so that every component along the chain of users and providers > could interact well. In that utopia we'd be able to worry about how we use > services (back to Gnome vs KDE), rather than how different services interact > (do my Ubuntu and Windows desktops access my Facebook friend emails the same > way, and do they both share the same list of most frequently used > applications, and do those applications include web and client apps, and how > does my handheld device access all this, and is it safe to store my > documents on service X when service Y can't access it, and...). Since only > half the population gets along with themselves at any given time, it takes > some special magic to get good standards set and used. So the usual > solution to the above problem is dictatorship, which presents its own > problem in the form of inter-dictatorship-operability. > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/desktop-discuss/attachments/20070430/91dcbe61/attachment.html>
