On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 10:02 AM, Manfred Bergmann <bergman...@web.de> wrote: > > Am 17.05.2009 um 14:54 schrieb Dmitrijs Ledkovs: > >> 2009/5/16 Jonathan Marsden <jmars...@fastmail.fm>: >>> >>> I'm wondering whether it might end up being simpler to create a Python >>> (or whatever your chosen portable scripting language is) GUI wrapper for >>> the SWORD utilities, that people run locally on their own machine, >>> rather than a web UI for a central server? Login authentication already >>> exists on the user's machine, there is no need to move possibly large >>> files back and forth, no worries about whose files they are, multiple >>> users at once are handled by the users OS (on multi-user OSes only, of >>> course), etc. >>> >> >> I guess we love python too much.... Cross-platform with correct >> widgets toolkit it will look native on all platforms. > > There is no widget toolkit that really has a native look&feel on Mac except > Cocoa. > Well, there is RubyCocoa or PythonCocoa bridge but using that means it is > not cross-platform anymore.
You could perhaps make the framework in Python and then plug-in PythonCocoa so someone else could plugin a PythonGTK or PythonQt interface overtop? --Greg > > > > Manfred > > >>> Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: >>> >>>> OpenId is quite neat. ... >>> >>> It is, but (unless something changed in the last few months) it has one >>> drawback that is hindering its usefulness: for it to work well, you need >>> to trust that the security of each OpenID provider you accept is solid. >>> And in the security world, the default is that no-one trusts anyone >>> else! >>> >>> So what is happening is that everyone is an OpenID provider, and >>> everyone accepts their own provider as being sufficiently secure... so >>> it looks like their site is trendy and accepts OpenID. However, many >>> places do not accept other providers. Or did not, when I tried it! >>> >>> At least last time I tried this, an OpenID created on LaunchPad was not >>> accepted by SourceForge, for example. Because of this, I just gave up >>> and continue to remember and use about 50+ passwords! >> >> Launchpad defaults to https: openID that indeed doesn't work on >> SourceForge http://launchpad.net/~you does work on SourceForge ;-) >> >>> >>> Hmmm, I just tried again, and after a couple of odd things happening >>> (like being asked to associate my OpenID with my SF account, doing so, >>> and getting sent to a blank web page!), it now seems to be working :) >>> So maybe things really are improving, or I just had back luck the first >>> time I tried out OpenID? >>> >> >> Well that's the strange thing that a lot of them do ask you to >> "associate" or "create" local account. But nonetheless openId is the >> other method to login. >> >>> Jonathan >> >> >> -- >> With best regards >> >> >> Dmitrijs Ledkovs (for short Dima), >> Ледков Дмитрий Юрьевич >> >> _______________________________________________ >> sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org >> http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel >> Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page > > > _______________________________________________ > sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org > http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel > Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
