fso bug/oddity

Tilman Baumann tilman at baumann.name
Wed Sep 17 19:44:31 CEST 2008


Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote:

>> I see fso walking a fine line between genius and insanity. :)
> 
> Agreed. But you'll never know on which part you walk unless you start moving. 
> That's what we're doing atm.
> 
> Please help us to stay on the genius' path ;)

Happyly.
At the moment i'm just observing the show. My time management for 
private projects is currently just horrible. I always feel bad talking 
about doing great stuff and never doing it. :)

>> settingsd vs. gconf would be one of these cases. I just refused to
>> really think about it yet, so i don't really know how much sense it
>> makes. I think i would not like the outcome... (gconf is horrible, but
>> it was there long enough to be considered a standard...)
> 
> Hmm, that doesn't count for me as a stopsign. First, gconf is already 
> deprecated by the "powers" (with dconf being the dbus-based successor they 
> work on),

O i did not notice. But i guess the api and namespaces will stay?

> 2nd being a "standard" doesn't necessarily mean it should stay 
> there forever unquestioned.

Certainly not. But i see the influence from the desktop to the phone as 
more important and fruitful as the other way around. (For being in the 
position to change the world)

>> pimd vs. eds the same...
> 
> Again, lets first concentrate on sane APIs (which is what the GSoc'08 project 
> did) and then check whether any of the existing solutions fit our needs.

Right. Full steam ahead!


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