Forgot to attach audio presentation of Mugshot: Audio for streaming and download now available at: http://www.archive.org/details/NYLUG_2007_04_18_General_Meeting
On 4/30/07, Brian Gupta <brian.gupta at gmail.com > wrote: > > 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/cbc35c1e/attachment.html>
