On 10/2/07, Cocoy Dayao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > You get the idea?
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> Yep. isn't eclipse built exactly for that kind of thing? isn't it

Not really. Its an IDE. It is really a totally different os structure.
There are no applications, folders or visible os. All you have are
documents. and documents is just an abstraction for everything.
movies, music, log files, chat session, etc.

> essentially a foundation for "plugins"? like one plugin can be a word
> processor and another plugin can be a tool for developing apps and a
> separate plugin for image editing. that would be great for a

i think plugins are a totally different beast. im thinking more like
opendoc. or maybe fresco. im thinking of scene graph thats can be
accessed by gazillion external processes. almost like the way browsers
and the internet is structured.

> workstation--- a business class workstation. i haven't seen symphony
> but isn't that based on eclipse? As for the saving to disk part, you
> know, i've never done hibernating on a linux machine, the hibernating
> part essentially-- "flashes" to disk your current work/setup/machine
> condition when you press power off.
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Well hibernation in linux as it is now is really too complicated.

I would rather have a system based on pervasive snapshotting.

> you know that would be a nice business app,  and a nice workflow.

This exact behaviour was built in a machine with 5 mhz and 128 kb ram in 1987.

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