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What is the Online Desktop?
It's pretty simple - the online desktop is this task list. Which is just a start (please add more!). It isn't a single product you can download, though we've been working on prototyping components such as the GConf synchronization, a new sidebar, etc.
I'm excited by discussion like this that shows developers are interested. If you are looking to jump in - a really cool yet discrete project would be implementing the pick-a-service dialog from that todo list. In other words, the thing that should appear from F-Spot if you plug in a digital camera, but don't have a photo site in your accounts.
Right now, you can get a person's contact network from the data model, and then enumerate the "external accounts" (sites used) by those people. In fact, this is exactly how the BigBoard Photos Stock works. What you'd need to do is have some way of tagging services by what kind they are (e.g. photos). Then code the widget to query those, uniquify it, order it by some criteria, then just stuff it all in a treeview.
I'm excited by discussion like this that shows developers are interested. If you are looking to jump in - a really cool yet discrete project would be implementing the pick-a-service dialog from that todo list. In other words, the thing that should appear from F-Spot if you plug in a digital camera, but don't have a photo site in your accounts.
Right now, you can get a person's contact network from the data model, and then enumerate the "external accounts" (sites used) by those people. In fact, this is exactly how the BigBoard Photos Stock works. What you'd need to do is have some way of tagging services by what kind they are (e.g. photos). Then code the widget to query those, uniquify it, order it by some criteria, then just stuff it all in a treeview.
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I need to get my todo lists reliable. Using 37signals' backpack now since nothing from Ubuntu's repositories cuts my needs.
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The biggest drawback of our synchronization feature is that the user must have a server or network mount of some kind to synchronize their notes to. Online Desktop integration would neatly solve this problem for the vast majority of our users, and open the door for all sorts of extra awesomeness.
-Sandy
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Woot!
The thing is, I own a laptop. Many others do, and even more will as over half of the sold personal computers are nowadays laptops. I carry it around, drop it occasionally from too high, might lose it entirely in transit etc. Having anything worth any real value stored primarily on the local hdd does not really sound a good idea to me. I rather just fall back to local copies if network is down. Online solution can provide security for me. (Not losing data IS an integral part of this concept called security!)
Furthermore, using these online services I can make a quick peek at my stuff from everywhere, or even poke around with it. I can for instance use a public computer for a few seconds and be back on my way. That all provides substantial value for me.
I quite honestly see the local computer, being mostly an "office worker, as being good for storing only some secondary stuff, ie. entertainment. Everything important is on scp/sftp shares, Google Mail, and Google Docs.
Which brings me to my an other pet peeve.. Why can't beagle and tracker index my Gmail/Gdocs? There are libraries available for accessing them, that's not the problem. This idea of "desktop search" is quite honestly outdated already and never will manage to take off as such. It's not desktop (as in your computer's contents) you want to search from. It's also all these online things!
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