[maemo-developers] web based local application GUIs

[From: Austin Che]

> I've decided that I'd really like to separate the frontend code from the
> backend code so we can have multiple frontends (pygame, gtk, etk, cli, WWW,
> etc).
>
> This would mean that the Kagu backend process would be a daemon (aka a
> service, depending on your education environment).
> And the frontends would communicate with the backend process somehow. I see
> a few possibilities here:
>
> 1.) Rpc (aka web services)
> 2.) Dbus
> 3.) Direct SQLite DB interaction

    I think this is a great idea. I personally use mpd just for this
    reason. In fact, why not just use the mpd protocol over net
    sockets? You'd immediately get a ridiculously large number of
    front-end clients and it would work over the net:
    http://mpd.wikia.com/wiki/Clients