Idea #9717: Make the Gnome Online Desktop available

Written by fabsh the 10 Jun 08 at 08:06. Category: Internet & Networking.
Related to: Nothing/Others. Status: New

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Looking at the Gnome Online Desktop - http://live.gnome.org/OnlineDesktop - this seems to me where most of the innovative development in the Gnome space is headed right now. I think a progressive distribution like Ubuntu should at least make packages available to help intermediate to advanced users to get this installed. The project and Ubuntu could benefit from the resulting eyeballs and bug reports.

I realise that this is still under heavy development but it seems workable enough right now to at least give people the chance of trying it out.

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Wikzo wrote on the 10 Jun 08 at 12:26

I read about it a while ago. It sounds very interesting, but it looks kinda hard to get by your own on Ubuntu. It would be great to have this as standard or an option to try it out very easy.

I, too, think this could be the future of computer OS'.

fabsh wrote on the 10 Jun 08 at 13:33

They could create a meta package, like for example kubuntu-desktop, that would install it as a separate session in GDM (which is the recommended way to install Online Desktop anyway).

spanella47 wrote on the 11 Jun 08 at 17:45

it seems interesting, but i fail to understand why it needs to be run as a separate session. can someone explain to me why they aren't just libraries for pulling data (like gdata is for google)? Why the concentration on the sidebar?

I use checkgmail for my mail, pidgin for google talk,and prism has become my new favorite for google calendar (replacing my desktop calendar) and google reader.

maybe they need more example applications to present its usefulness and power...the sidebar is weak in my opinion. Something like the clutter frontend i saw a demo of onceto view and organize your flickr pictures (but of course never materialized into an actual appplication).

Or am i missing something?

fabsh wrote on the 12 Jun 08 at 07:09

I think the separate session is just to play it save at the moment. It's so that you can go back to your normal desktop if something breaks horribly. That's how I understood it, anyway.

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