Re: data base for desktop data (couchdb?)

["Luis Matos" <luis matos ua pt>]

Just for tracking, i created a page in gnome's wiki:
http://live.gnome.org/dss

called it "Desktop storage Services".

Em Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:44:36 +0100
 "Luis Matos" <luis matos ua pt> escreveu:
> i found, for example, mojito [0] a "A personal social 
> data server", where you can store conversations. 
> (supporting twitter, flickr and others [1])
>
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> [0] http://git.moblin.org/cgit.cgi/mojito/tree/README
> [1] http://git.moblin.org/cgit.cgi/mojito/tree/services
>
> Em Wed, 15 Jul 2009 06:43:14 -0400
>  "Brian J. Murrell" <brian interlinx bc ca> escreveu:
> > On Wed, 2009-07-15 at 11:13 +0200, Olav Vitters wrote:
> > > What is the point / purpose / use-case? Why would it be 
> > > better if it all
> > > uses the same method?
> >
> > I think there are better use-cases than Luis originally 
> > came up with.
> > Music is a great example.  On the Gnome side of the 
> > fence we have both
> > Rhythmbox and Banshee (and probably others).  Their 
> > overlap in
> > functionality is quite large and thus they more or less 
> > do the same
> > thing.  At their core they do exactly the same thing. 
> > They just wrap
> > that with different eye-candy and features.
> >
> > But really, there is no reason why they can't or 
> > shouldn't be using the
> > same store for their music metadata as they even store 
> > much of the same
> > metadata.  And additionally, there's no reason why 
> > non-gnome flavours of
> > the same kind of app. cannot use that store as well. 
> > There is nothing
> > really "gnome" about it.
> >
> > NNTP is another example.  We have Pan and we have 
> > Evolution.  Why don't
> > they both store and access news in the same place -- at 
> > least as an
> > option.  Given the establishment of 
> > evolution-data-server, it would be
> > nice for Pan to leverage that if it's present and/or the 
> > user chooses
> > it.
> >
> > And since we have EDS, why should other mail/news 
> > utilities not leverage
> > it either, i.e like Thunderbird.  And calendar tools 
> > like Sunbird, etc.
> >
> > This commonality has more than one benefit.  It benefits 
> > the developers
> > in that they can pool their resources to working on the 
> > core technology,
> > making it better, and it benefits the users as their 
> > data is easily
> > accessible from more than one client/tool.
> >
> > Oh, yes, and let's not forget tracker and beagle.
> >
> > Maybe many of these common data storage problems need to 
> > be pushed down
> > from gnome towards the freedesktop standards.
> >
> > b.
>
> Luis F. C. Matos
> Departamento de Engenharia Mecânica
> Universidade de Aveiro
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Luis F. C. Matos
Departamento de Engenharia Mecânica
Universidade de Aveiro