I went and built raindrop just to see what it can do. I haven't quite gotten a good grip on it yet. It seems though that integration with Zeitgrist might have some advantages. I don't know what a visual shell and raindrop would do other than notifications?
sri On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 5:35 AM, William Jon McCann < [email protected]> wrote: > Hey Bryan, > > Yeah it sounds like we do have similar goals and it would be great to > be able to work well together. It seems like the Message Tray may be > a natural place for our designs to fit together. While I don't have a > good idea of what this may mean yet (still digesting the links you > sent) I wanted to say it sounds like a great idea with a lot of > potential. > > Would like to hear what you and others think. > > Thanks, > Jon > > On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 7:44 PM, Bryan Clark <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hey - > > > > We just announced the release of Raindrop [1] a new messaging system > we've > > been working on for a little while now. I'm announcing to this list > because > > I think Raindrop could provide a lot of value to gnome-shell as many of > the > > design goals are similar. It's likely best to read the introduction blog > > entry [2] and look over the limited code documentation [3] if you're > > interested but I'll give the 30 second run down here. > > > > Raindrop is being designed as a message system specifically for how > people > > communicate in today's web environment; i.e. email, mailing lists, > twitter, > > etc. The system itself is a CouchDB daemon service that knows how to > pull > > down your email and twitter (process and index them) and then can serve > them > > back as JSON objects. Raindrop includes a built in messaging web > > application that also gets served from the same place, you'll see demos > of > > it in the videos. > > > > We only had the chance to do a couple iterations and are working to > develop > > some real web apis [4] which could be useful for integration of contacts, > > messages, and other data Raindrop provides. > > > > I'm not suggesting that gnome-shell pulls in Raindrop today and starts > using > > it, we are definitely not ready for that. I am hoping that gnome-shell > > people will find Raindrop interesting and that we can start looking at > how > > we could work with each if it makes sense. > > > > Let me know if there are questions. I still can't seem to run the shell > > with my thinkpad nvidia card but am looking for another system to try it > on. > > > > Cheers, > > ~ Bryan > > > > [1] http://labs.mozilla.com/raindrop/ > > [2] http://labs.mozilla.com/raindrop/2009/10/22/introducing-raindrop/ > > [3] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Raindrop > > [4] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Raindrop/WebApis > > [*] http://clarkbw.net/blog/2009/10/22/raindrop/ > > _______________________________________________ > > gnome-shell-list mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list > > > _______________________________________________ > gnome-shell-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list >
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