Re: [Java-gnome-developer] Java-GNOME thoughts

[Elias M. <el...@al...>]

s=C3=B6n 2003-11-09 klockan 12.46 skrev ACJT:

> I agree with this, and to make it excellent for the project, I think
> getting the application to exist as part of the gnome distribution
> would be fantastic and prove that it really is worthwhile and useful.
> But what application is needed?? This is the big question, and I can't
> think of anything! The only annoying thing I ever had was setting up
> my printer, however this is now almost OK because of the
> gnome-cups-printmgr. So I have no idea!!

True. It really does feel like everything has been done now has it? :-)

It's not like it's possible to just sit and thenk of the next big killer
app to make. However, most likely it will be an app that leverages the
enormous amounts of libraries and tools already available for Java. Want
to make a new FTP client? I think I could top gFTP in a matter of days
by leveraging the enterprisedt FTP client library.

If you want to make an RSS reader, you could do that extremely quickly
too since we have it all already, just need to slap a GUI on top of it.

I've also considered making a better "todo" application. A smal app that
sits in the panel and lets to easily keep track of everything that I
should do (need panel support for this one).

So, what useful stuff do we have in the Java world that we want to bring
to the GNOME users?

Elias