On Wednesday 21 May 2008 12:04:40 Samuel Melrose wrote:

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> Sorry to stick my nose in on this, especially if I'm missing something.

> But do you guys have anything decided about this, and what it is all

> going to be stored on? May I suggest using SQLite for the data

> storage? It is very lightweight, not much ram or processor use needed,

> unlike parsing big XML files... and I'm sure it'd be easy implemented

> in the core libraries? Because this way, other applications could read

> from these data-stores directly, or there could be a standardized API

> for applications to access that could make the information available

> in these open formats =].

This is one of subjects eventually being topic of the framework initiative.

Right now, we have a google SoC project underway that aims to produce a dbus

API and a demo-dbus PIM storage daemon to realize this. I'd be happy to

discuss this further on openmoko-devel@lists.openmoko.org or

smartphones-standards@linuxtogo.org together with the GSoC student Sören

Abraxa and his mentor Michael Dietrich. The current state of affairs can be

read @ http://www.neo1973-germany.de/wiki/pyPimd
> Not sure if I'm totally barking up the wrong tree here... so please

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> correct me if I am wrong....

Not at all, this is very important -- even more so if we want to realize a

multicultural (UI toolkit, language, you name it) application environment.
:M:
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