GNOME Do and The Network Backed Plugin Architecture
So I like GNOME Do. That’s not exactly a secret. Nor am I the only one.
While it’s obviously - and admittedly - highly derivative of the OS X Quicksilver application, it’s a nice piece of work. One that continues to evolve into a nice platform, not to mention the rare application that has reshaped my desktop and the way I use it.
But none of that is what I’m interested in writing about - apologies for the digression. What I personally found fascinating about the 0.5 release was the way it continues the blurring of the lines between network and client application that I’ve been expecting for some time.
Like the dutiful Linux application it is, Do can be installed via a variety of package management systems (Ubuntu users, here’s the PPA for the latest and greatest bits). Which is entirely unexceptional, of course. What is new for Do, and somewhat exceptional for other applications we could discuss - web and otherwise - was the plugin architecture.
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