Proposal and RFC: Introducing DAL, the "Desktop Abstraction Layer"

[Marcin Krzyzanowski]

Użytkownik John (J5) Palmieri napisał:
> On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 05:38, Ikke wrote:
> 
>>Hi xdg list members,
>>
>>Last days I've been thinking of desktop integration on the Linux/...
>>desktop. Not limited to Gnome OR KDE OR whatever more, but
>>desktop-neutral application integration.
>>
>>I started thinking about this issue after I wanted to write some code
>>that enables me to get the "Away" state in Gaim when my screensaver is
>>started. I got this working using some DBUS magic, some sort of polling
>>application for xscreensaver, which is working now, but then I started
>>to feel this is very limited. I wrote this now, its working, but it is
>>relatively difficult to get any other application making use of these
>>DBUS signals (screensaver started, stopped,...). Like, if I start using
>>a new screensaver application, I'd need to write some other application
>>to send out signals and monitor the screensaver app. Or if I'd start
>>using aMsn instead of Gaim, I'd have to hack on that one, and so on. But
>>in the end there would be no global overview: it would be hack on hack
>>on hack, where most of the previous work gets lost.
>>This explanation may sound very obscure, I know it's not really well
>>written, but I don't really know how to explain this better.
>>
>>So I started thinking about a more "global" desktop notification and
>>information providing system. I wrote down a document where I try to
>>describe what I got in my head here [1]. Someone commented on it already
>>here [2].
>>
>>The current "working title" I chose is "Desktop Abstraction Layer",
>>similar to HAL, because this proposal has a lot of similarities to HAL.
>>It's just not hardware-centered.
>>
>>I'd like to know whether you guys think this is a useful application, if
>>there already exists something like this, if it is useful, where do I
>>make mistakes in my proposed implementation,... Most of you are far more
>>familiar to desktop programming than I am, so...
>>
>>If this proposal looks useful in some way, I'd like to make a
>>freedesktop.org project of it, because IMHO that's where it belongs.
>>That's a discussion for later on though :-)
>>
>>
>>I'm looking forward to read your ideas, comments and so on on this!
>>
>>
>>Kind regards,
>>
>>Ikke						http://www.eikke.com
>>
>>
>>[1]
>>http://code.eikke.com/index.php?dir=DesktopAbstractionLayer/&file=presentation-1.txt
>>[2]
>>http://blog.eikke.com/index.php/ikke/2005/01/12/review_and_comments_asked#comments, 2nd comment
>>


Take a look at http://ofi.hakore.com
this is exactly what I've been thinking about when I did it as a proof
of concept with OFI.


-- 
Marcin Krzyżanowski