Re: Social Desktop

On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 1:00 AM, Melvin Carvalho
<melvincarvalho@gmail.com> wrote:
> The concept behind the Social Desktop is to bring the power of online
> communities and group collaboration to desktop applications and the
> desktop shell itself.
>
> A first realization of this concept is now implemented as a plasmoid
> (a desktop widget) for the KDE desktop. KDE Version 4.3 is going to
> have a so called Social Desktop Plasmoid integrated.
>
> http://www.socialdesktop.org/
>
> KDE 4.3 was released today, will be interesting to see how well
> "social desktop" integrates with the OS.

Also tracking the "Social from the Start" initiative, which should be
part of the upcoming Ubuntu release next month

https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/desktop-karmic-social-from-the-start

Gwibber seems to be a key element, but I hear it may eventually be
part of the operating install process.

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Received on Thursday, 17 September 2009 12:05:19 UTC