Op dinsdag 06-03-2007 om 14:01 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Esben Stien: > I fear we are not setting correct guidelines for GNOME applications. > > It would be very nice with a policy of separating the core and UI > throughout GNOME. This does not only mean applications using > libraries; this means using daemons as the core of every application. > > This is proper engineering and gives a very good and powerful base. > > An example is epiphany; by having a browser client core, you can > connect many different interfaces to the core and browse the same open > URLs'. Manipulating the data from a terminal is also a breeze.
Thanks for the compliment, on behalf of the Epiphany team. :) > A system wide download daemon, in the same spirit as f.ex mldonkey > lets every application feed a URL, torrent, etc. to the daemon and you > can get notified when the download completes with the notification > daemon. What you are looking for is this: > > A system wide audio player daemon, in the same spirit as xmms2, using > gstreamer of course;). > > The list goes on and on. > > We need to use the UNIX power more and we can should foster different > interfaces to very powerful cores, which would satisfy everybody. A > user interface should be just that; an interface, but the core should > be able to handle more than simple operations. > > I'm all for the cute GNOME applications, but I think we're not using > the power that is available to us. > -- Reinout van Schouwen http://vanschouwen.info/ _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list