Hey guys, Remember Maemo <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maemo>? It had excellent design and technology, way ahead of its time. Back in 2009 it had inertial scrolling in GTK (GTK2!), slim scrollbars, AppMenu, awesome notification system similar to pantheon-notify... And from this day on I seriously doubt we ever came up with anything that Maemo folks didn't.
I've been searching for prior art on https://blueprints.launchpad.net/elementaryos/+spec/better-remote-file-handlingand guess what I've stumbled upon? *Maemo had Contractor too.* Their implementation is called "libcontentaction"; an overview and further docs are available here<http://harmattan-dev.nokia.com/docs/platform-api-reference/showdoc.php?pkn=libcontentaction&wb=daily-docs&url=Li94bWwvZGFpbHktZG9jcy9saWJjb250ZW50YWN0aW9u>, and the source code is on Gitorious<http://maemo.gitorious.org/maemo-af/libcontentaction>. Libcontentaction can act on: - Regular files, selected by mimetype - URI schemes - Nepomuk/Tracker objects (yes, they had LibraryKit<https://blueprints.launchpad.net/elementaryos/+spec/librarykit>too! Unfortunately, Tracker doesn't scale to the desktop needs). - Text fragments matched by regexp (which is crazy/awesome) In addition it supports calling actions over D-bus; it's probably a good idea to reuse their time-proven format of describing them. Notably, libcontentaction doesn't support data streams; it's bound to files or tiny text snippets, pretty much like the current contractor. I've got all the architecture for data streaming figured out, I wish we could implement it... -- Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff OS architect @ elementary
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