[haiku-development] Re: Working on Caya and Mail app for GSoC

  • From: François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 12:56:49 +0200

Le 30 mars 2011 à 11:16, Adrien Destugues a écrit :

> A file with no data stream is ok, but a file with no data stream, that is 
> also actually not stored on a disk drive, but a remote entry in a database on 
> some server ; that's starting to feel strange for me.

That's what googlefs is doing, and it works quite well :P

>>> One nice thing about people files is it allows to sync your local
>>> address book with your GMail contact list automagically :)
>> 
>> I don't know what you mean by that.
> If we do an FS layer for jabber contacts, this means the FS is mounted only 
> when the jabber server is available, in order to stay in sync with it. This 
> means I have to be connected to the internet to get access to these files. I 
> think that's wrong, because I may want to look at my contact list when 
> offline.

Yes for this kind of use I'd rather just keep the IM Kit way of using people 
file in ~/people.

François.

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