Technology Integration

We can more deeply integrate new technology that has appeared since the beginning of the 2.x series.

• Cairo

• Kickarse graphics library (like Apple's CoreImage)

• Powerful Indexer like Tracker orBeagle

• Consistent use of GStreamer framework for audio sanity

• New panel and applets design (again, see AppletsRevisited)

• Tight tie-in with frameworks like Evolution-Data-Server and Galago throughout

• Lamps!! (ok, maybe not)

• Introduce Metadata throughout the desktop
• Follow the LonghornFS path and back everything with postgres so that we get better metadata, queryability, etc.

  • Could use gls^3

• Make interaction between users/computers over the network seamless
  • may be a good idea to have a common protocol

    • XMPP could be used as a transport: http://www.ldodds.com/blog/archives/000137.html

  • show documents shared by friends/groups along side your documents
  • should stuff with creative commons licenses automatically be verified, then shared?

• Use something like NX to separate the physical location of a machine from where a user works.

  • I want to be able to log on to any computer as "me@mydomain" and get my desktop.
  • raises some security related concerns
  • NX probably would use less bandwidth than vnc

  • http://www.gnome.org/~markmc/a-look-at-nomachine-nx.html