Re: [Chandler-dev] Post-1.0 Chandler Desktop Rearchitecture Project

On 9 Sep, 2008, at 12:33, Davor Cubranic wrote:

> Grant,
>
> I agree with your point on focusing the rearchitecture effort on a
> minimum amount of code that will give volunteer developers a solid
> foundation to do the rest.  But I would put forward a slightly  
> different
> definition of what that minimum is: How about initially implementing  
> as
> little of the UI as possible and putting the bulk of your effort into
> the Domain and basic Storage layers?
>
> This would give us a working, well-tested Chandler "engine" that could
> do CRUD operations on notes, tasks, and calendar items, plus sharing  
> and
> a callback mechanism for periodic tasks and reminders.
>
> Interested plugin developers would then have the option to write
> alternate Chandler UIs.  For example, I'd be interested in exposing a
> DBus interface to Chandler, running it headless, and then using a
> collection of desktop widgets for viewing the calendar, quick entry,
> etc.

Hi, Davor

Interesting ... certainly, the way we are building things (via  
plugins) would allow you to assemble what you want. How complete would  
you like the domain and sharing parts to be before you would think of  
implementing?

--Grant

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