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diff --git a/doc/context-talk.txt b/doc/context-talk.txt deleted file mode 100644 index bdf96808..00000000 --- a/doc/context-talk.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,282 +0,0 @@ ------------------------ - - ContextKit - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -------------------------- -Context and Conversations - -* The stuff that happens around you. - -* Shared by the people that you interact with. - -* Implicit part of a conversation. - -* Ignoring context makes you look absent minded. - - - - - - - - - - - - -------------------------- -Context and Computers - -* Conversation between Man and Machine also has context. - -* What has the user done with the computer? "Recent documents", - "Browsing history", "Recently written emails", ... - -* Getting additional clues without help from user: time of day, day of - week, geographical location, sitting still or moving, holding like a - camera or like a phone, Internet connectivity, .. - -* Use those clues to improve the Man / Machine conversation. - -* "Essential Digital Companion". (Yeah, right) - -* Quite fuzzy, experimentation should be easy. - - - - - -------------------------- -Context and Connecting People - -* Computers facilitate conversations between people - -* People want to share their context with their peers. - -* Computers should help share the context of a conversation between - people as well. - - - - - - - - - - - - - -------------------------- -So? - -* Bring together 'context providers' - - - DeviceKit, GeoClue, Meta tracker, Telepathy, BlueZ, ConnMan, oFono, - Sensors, ... - -* Standardize high-level interfaces across desktops - - - GNOME, KDE, Maemo, Moblin, Sugar, ... - -* With bindings for all languages - - - C, Glib, Qt, Python, Perl, JavaScript, C#, ... - -* No silver bullet, regular programming, no magic enabler needed. - -* Restrict, simplify, do the minimal useful thing - - - -------------------------- -ContextKit - -* "Global variables for the Desktop" - -* Disciplined way of 'setting' those variables - -* Concrete list of variables - -* Rich type system - -* Well integrated into many languages - - - - - - - - - - -------------------------- -Status - -* First generation framework done - -* Some properties defined - -* Some buy in from other Nokia research projects. - -* Only for Qt / C++ (sorry) - -* A bit too static still - - - - - - - - - - -------------------------- -Architecture - -* Decoupled - -* Publish/subscribe for property values - -* Run-time introspection - -* XML property declarations with cache - -* No central daemon - - - - - - - - - - -------------------------- -Demo and Docs - -* Context Commander - -* Subscriber - -* Provider - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -------------------------- -Desktop Types - -* Little hobby of mine - -* Intersect a number of dynamic type systems to find the core - - - Null, numbers, strings, lists, maps - - Missing: association lists, turn out to be more useful - than maps for interchange. - -* Define language neutral static types - - - Enums, time, coordinates, ... - -* Write bindings of static types for static languages, documentation - systems, introspection APIs. - - - - -------------------------- -Nano-DOM - -* Mapping of subset of XML into Desktop Types. - -* Used to define context properties - - <key name="Battery.ChargeLevel" - type="percentage"> - <doc>...</doc> - </key> - - <key> - <name>Battery.ChargeLevel</name> - <type>percentage</type> - <doc>...</doc> - </key> - - "key", { "name": "Battery.ChargeLevel", "type": "percentage", - "doc": "..." } - - -------------------------- -Static Desktop Type - -* Dynamic desktop types: simple, fixed. - -* Static desktop types: expressive, extensible - -* Hierarchy, parameters. - - <type name="uniform-list" base="list"> - <params> - <type doc="Type of the elements"/> - </params> - <doc>...</doc> - </type> - - <key name="Use.RecentDocuments"> - <type> - <uniform-list type="nepomuk-uri"/> - </type> - <doc>...</doc> - </key> - -------------------------- -Future - -* Finding a home on freedesktop.org - -* Lobbying for mind share - -* Adding GVariant and Python into the picture - -* Getting the D-Bus protocol right - -* Simple aggregation in client, maybe - - (Sum, append, average, max, ...) - -* 'Context Cron' - |