i arrived in ottawa this morning and came directly to the desktop developers conference (ddc), bags in tow. many familiar faces are in the rather small crowd: chris schlager, waldo bastian, brad hughes, daniel stone, chris blizzard, keith packard, etc, etc, etc .. and i think it's the first time any of them has ever met me in my country of origin: canada.
i arrived just in time to catch the tail-end of waldo's talk on portland and as i write this i'm listening to the presentation on network manager.
after the two days of ddc is the ottawa linux symposium, which i'll also be attending. my goal is simple: to gather information to bring back to the kde project about what is happening in the rest of the free software world, to ensure that the kde perspective is represented and to find time in between to hack on code.
i spent pretty much all of last week dealing with administration duties. i think i'm going to try and avoid any more of that this week and do a pure tech week. i do have one or two minor administration issues to take care of (hi andreas!) but i'm looking at soaking in a nice vat of tech.
i'll be blogging as the week progresses and hope to record some podcasts for kde://radio as well ... though right now a shower and a proper meal would also be nice.
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Aaron, what would be the best place to post new ideas for KDE4?
Since you have been working on the new KAutostart infrastructure and things like the new KDEPIM interface I think I can at least post an idea here that has something to do with them:
Testcase:
I download a nice picture. My wife sees it and says "how nice! I want that as my wallpaper".
- Problem nowadays:
On a Linux PC with multiple accounts, it is difficult to share files with other users of the same PC (not talking about networks!). An easy way is to setup a shared FAT partition where there are no Linux write rights (Sharing folders never worked for me). Not very practical or elegant.
- Even if the distries enabled a shared documents folder like Windows XP does, I still would have to copy that picture to the folder, and the next time my wife logs in, she would have to remember she wanted a new wallpaper and then set it up.
What I propose is a framework in which the following is possible:
I just send the picture to a User-transfer service. Next time my wife logs in, a pop up (or some visual queue) will tell her user x wants to send her something, accept or cancel. She then immediately remembers it is the picture she wanted as wallpaper and voila! That would be seamless and intuitive. And very efficient for the memory challenged!
Maybe some kind of user-transfer service should be loaded with KAutostart and do that kind of interuser tasks.
What do you think about it?
Mike
Your b'day present was mailed last week. Should be waiting for you when you return! Have fun at your confereces etc!
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