Moc up look very pretty, But compare it to windows vista mock up.
you will see the bottom green panel showing the information about teh document selected.
there are a lot of issues to look at there:
1) see that how much information is linked to single file of rather a 'content'. with such integration of information Desktop environment is able to achieve several things at once.
2) It lets user to use and see the content the way he wishes to see it. so no longer it is necessary for the beginer to leran 'folders are like drawers'. rather he rates the content and searches for 5 star rated content on his computer or tags (Microsoft call it keywords) files whereever they are as 'Job Search' and again he gets all the content he wants where ever in seconds
3) it lets desktop to integrate software with information browser, so there is this new concept of search and use the content. this gives user and developer advantage like never before.
Advantages to developer:
for once developer does not have to code all this information management as seperate software. consider media player eg. now no need to provide 5-star rating storage mechanism seperately use system api, get the rating and use it and guess what email client needs to do if mails are stored as starred content. use the very same api and just use it !
4) this vast information provides desktop environmet a chance to integrate with the future. The evolving web technologies for instance. XML gives developer vast range of choices to choose data format and if desktop supports it to the web apps could become as feature rich and effecient as full fleged programs.
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for now this is all i can see, but lot of things i think of can become more clear if there is more clear documentation / explanation of what KDE 4 architecture is planned to be. right now there is not very precise description available i guess.
lastly, i am am not exactly a experienced technical programmer, so if any one could provide me with how to translate this stuff in terms of KDE code plans or correct/add to it I would be great
thanks
sachin.
