I think the Instant Messaging info could be used by IM clients to
automatically setup accounts when installed. I always hate having to
setup an account more than once, simply because one application doesn't
know anything about me.
I wonder what other use cases there are - I'd spend some time chewing
that over before dismissing it - though it may end up having nothing
but "whiz-bang" apepal.
Kirk
Neil wrote:
On 6/12/2007 6:19 AM, Steven Garrity wrote:
Neil wrote:
Well, I think instead of getting rid of it, it should simply be used.
The reason it's not being used, I imagine, is because not all programs
are Gnome exclusive (and they shouldn't be), and this is a Gnome
exclusive feature.
One way to handle this that I can think of right now (and I haven't
slept in a while, so forgive me if unfogged minds find this stupid) is
to have a sort of unified standard for DEs to provide user information
and a standard way for programs to call the information from whatever DE
is active and then let it be used however. [snip]
Is this really a problem that needs to be solved, though? I'm not sure
I enter this type of information into any of one my applications, let
alone a whole slew of them.
Cheers,
Steven Garrity
OpenOffice.org could easily use it and has space for it.
Besides that, like I said, I couldn't think of any applications that
used it. (At least on Linux...) If the availability was there, though,
applications might find use for it. But, I agree. It's hardly at the
top of the priority list...
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