[Design] skinning and local ldap and imap service

[bkd]

--- Kaitlin Duck Sherwood <ducky@osafoundation.org>
wrote:

> >(1) Support for Unicode in particular, and support
> for languages other than
> >English in general. 
> >
> We have already started talking about localization
> and 
> internationalization.  That's important to us.

I didn't follow the skinning thread that developed in
the early days of the list, because I tend to think of
skinning as little more eye candy. But then as I
thought some more. it seems to me that whatever the
interface provided for skins could probably double as
a suitable interface for i18n and l10n labels and
glyphs.

> >(3) It would be great to have some way for
> user-specific data and
> >profiles to "float" from one machine to another, so
> he/she can sit down at
> >any client that is part of the same notional
> organization and pick up where
> >he/she left off. 
> >
> I believe we realize that we're going to have to
> find some way to do 
> that.  LDAP and IMAP will presumably help.

I couldn't think of a real justification for Chandler
to provide a local IMAP and LDAP server, beyond
'because it can,' and also for surreptitious Chandler
installations, ie, using outlook, but instead of
pointing to the company's POP3 server, pointing to the
Chandler repository via IMAP on 127.0.0.1. Also, I can
see a use for a lightweight departmentwide LDAP
server.

bkd


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