An "online desktop" for GNOME?

An "online desktop" for GNOME?

Posted Jul 27, 2007 10:38 UTC (Fri) by drag (subscriber, #31333)
Parent article: An "online desktop" for GNOME?

"Online Desktop"?

I don't mind online desktop idea at all. As long as "my online" is not _your_ "online". More or less.

What I mean is that if I wanted to setup a "gnome online desktop" I can do it without actually using any of your services, or anybody else's. I need to have the option of having control over it and being able to setup my own server.

In order to scale and be usable over the long run it needs to scale, in order to do that it needs to be distributed. Just like the web anybody can setup a 'Gnome online server' and not loose out on any functionality.

The idea of having a central authority control and manage information is a losing proposition. Waste of time. This is not how the internet works, it's not how it was ment to work and isn't how it's going to work in the future.

File sharing, VoIP with optional video support, community Chat/IRC, Instant messaging, calandering, etc etc. All these things are things that need to 'just work' in Gnome. All of this needs to tie together in a rather seemless fasion and using open peer-to-peer protocols combined with _optional_ services for search and online 'community' stuff. Get this working well, first, and then you'll have people's attention.

Nobody has this stuff working well yet. Not OS X, Not Windows, Not KDE. Nobody.

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