Hi, As some of you know, I've spent some intense cycles on the social desktop support in KDE and specifically in Plasma. This functionality integrates a social network, in this case openDesktop.org which powers sites such as kde- ook.org, kde-apps.org and opendesktop.org. The server-side parts are specified in the Open Collaboration Services API, to be seen on http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/open-collaboration-services
The grand vision behind all that is to closely integrate the social web into the desktop. What's there right now is the tip of the iceberg. This consists of mainly two parts: - The OCS dataengine. This engine offers data sets (lists of people, activities, ...) as interface for Plasmoids. Dataengines provide easy support for scripting, as you don't need bindings for all languages. The dataengine uses the ocsclient library, which -- with friendly permission -- has been lifted from Cornelius Schumacher's hackweek project. Some bits have been added already. The lib is currently private to the dataengine though. The plan is to give it some real-world usage and improve it in the 4.4 cycle so it can be made available to more applications. There is already some discussion ongoing about the general direction. The lib works reliably right now though, and is I think in good enough shape for a private lib. The OCS dataengine is already in kdereview. - The openDesktop Plasma applet. This applet displays detailed information about the user and his social environment, friends. It also hooks into the geolocation dataengine to retrieve the current location and uses this data to find people that are nearby. On top of that, it provides a button to update the user's current location, opt-in of course. This makes it much easier to update the loction information, and in turn makes the "find nearby people" functionality potentially much more useful. For a basic version, the applet is now feature-complete. As it is still in playground, and we only have 6 days left until the hard-freeze, time's a bit short for the full two-week review period. I've aksed Marco Martin, one of the core Plasma hackers and also interested in this subject, if he would be willing to do a review before the hard-freeze, and he agreed to that. We have a Dot story in the pipeline to explain the concepts, functionality and vision a bit more, expect it to be posted within the next day or two. So while I've kind of missed that line in the sand 8 days ago (I was in fact promoting KDE in Turkey), I'd like to get an exception and be able to move the opendesktop Plasmoid to kdereview. There shouldn't be any grave issues with the applet, but of course if the review finds some, I'll go ahead and fix them. Note that I'm not asking for breaking the string freeze, and that the applet is on the feature plan since before the soft-freeze. So the only thing really is that the two week period in kdereview is shortened. I also don't expect any regressions caused by this move, as it's completely new functionality and doesn't touch any other components. Are there objections against this shortened review period? If not, I'll move the opendesktop Plasmoid to kdereview within the next two days, and we'll do a shortened review cycle (we, that's Marco and me) so I can address possible issues directly. Thanks for your friendly consideration, -- sebas http://www.kde.org | http://vizZzion.org | GPG Key ID: 9119 0EF9 _______________________________________________ release-team mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/release-team
