[Chandler-dev] Summer of Code proposal

[Davor Cubranic]

On Fri, 28 Mar 2008, Avner Shanan wrote:

> Widgets seem to be in high demand, both for web and for the desktop
> (four out of the five projects on the Projects Idea list are widgets).
> If it does not already exist, I would like to create a  framework that
> will allow easy access to the data store for widgets.

I thought it interesting that with release 4.0 KDE introduced a
two-layer architecture for desktop widgets: the UI, corresponding to the
actual widgets, and the data store, which provides the data to the
widgets. It would be pretty neat if Chandler could carve out a niche for
itself here, I don't think there is much available yet in this space.
There could be a unified Chandler data store (either based on the
desktop code or simply interfacing to the Hub), with all the widgets
using it to query and modify the data they need.

Davor