[maemo-developers] Twitter application for canola2 as a gsoc project

[From: Luis Felipe Strano Moraes]

On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 9:19 AM, Sebastian 'CrashandDie' Lauwers
<crashanddie at gmail.com> wrote:
> Reply-to issues. Was meant for the list.
>
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Luis Felipe Strano Moraes
> <luis.strano at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 8:31 AM, Sebastian 'CrashandDie' Lauwers
>> <crashanddie at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 1:57 AM, Luis Felipe Strano Moraes
>>> <luis.strano at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> One of the reasons why I suggested him to take a look at twitpic. Also,
>>>> since canola works with plugins, extending it is basically a question of
>>>> whether there are people interested in using such extensions and people
>>>> willing to develop them :P
>>>
>>> Technological possibility != justification.
>>>
>>> You can teach a cow to pull a car, but that doesn't mean you should.
>>
>> But the limitation "Canola" == "Media Center" is one that exists right now
>> purely because all plugins are media related. There are plans for web browsers,
>> gps plugins, etc.

Just explaining a little bit further, we've been contacted by students
who wish to
develop plugins for not only these things I mentioned, but also for
others such as
PIM related and etc.
One thing I've tried to ask people who are trying to work on GSoC with Canola is
to try to think how they would actually use that feature, draw some mock-ups,
think if it's really necessary.
I'm not saying that people should develop anything in Canola just because it's
possible, but if they think it's useful and they want to do it, go for
it. The platform
is open (now with source code as well). I personally don't use
twitter, I've always
thought it was an awful way of keeping up with other people or
whatever it is it's
supposed to do, but after I found out about twitpic, I gotta say I
thought it might
be really cool to use it, specially if the n810+1 really has a good camera (from
what I've read people saying on the interweb, should be at least as good as the
n95 one, but I think we won't know for sure until nokia releases more info).

Cheers,
--lf



>>
>> So why not having a twitter application that can even be used to share
>> pictures ?
>>
>> --lf
>>
>> PS: you replied directly to me, since I'm not sure you wanted to reply
>> to the whole
>> list I'm responding this privately, but feel free to fwd it there
>>
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