On Thu, 6 Aug 2009 23:03:17 -0400 erik quanstrom <quans...@quanstro.net> wrote:
> > These are reasonable questions (and many of them have "yes" as the > > answer ;-)) but I have a more > > fundamental objection here: the desktop is just NOT the place for such > > a functionality to originate from. The very > > concept of a fixed desktop that resides on a physical piece of > > hardware that you own feels so 20th century > > to me. One way or the other the online identity issue is going to be > > settled. For contenders, though, I'd > > rather look at: factotum or things like OAuth. > > X11 way back when, for all its faults, was more network > centric than openview or anything that came after. X11 isn't a desktop, it tries very hard not to define a look and feel, but it has to include inter-app communications to support the supposedly desirable drag & drop as well as any copy/paste beyond plain text. In fact my big beef with dbus is that everything is all hot-all-over about dbus when it needs to be using X IPC. -- Ethan Grammatikidis Those who are slower at parsing information must necessarily be faster at problem-solving.
