has anyone looked into the Google toolkit? http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/
Hard to say how well it would fit in with slimserver, or how hard it might be to make a standard toolkit to use with slimserver skins, much like 6.5 has started with the cmdwrappers and hreftemplate.
I found it not too hard to add some ajax to the Fishbone skin, using prototype.js as the base. However, there is a limit to what that can do without adding much more complicated framework. I don't think that drag & drop will work using that. And, of course, drag and drop from outside the browser is even more of a mystery.
I'm a strong believer is using the web for the ui. It allows a ready-made platform instead of using up resources just to maintain an application framework for MANY different OS's. Don't ever underestimate the difficulties in maintaining a common interface across even multiple windows versions, let alone OSX and the many flavours of linux. Slimserver provides options for API's so that third parties can create their own preferred UI on their preferred OS. The popularity of JRiver is a good example. Why not campaign those developers to create hooks for the CLI, and the importers.
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