Projects/Silk

Notes from meeting 9 July 2009

The basic aim of project silk is to deeply integrate online content into the desktop user experience.

LibWeb

This will be a library containing utility classes for integrating online content and services into KDE. Here are some ideas of things it could contain:

• MediaWiki Query class
• WebSlice widget
• Web identity configuration manager
  • Controls the settings for microblogging, blogging, facebook, google.
• SOAP API (useful for corporate web apis)
• Bookmark access (via akonadi)
• Web page thumbnailer
• Web page meta data API (with previews)
• Web page nepomuk integration
• Base class for implementing REST apis with site-specific implementations
• Wikipedia krunner
• Monitor webpages + change notifications

What the user gets

• Public transport
• Online news
• Online shopping (Amazon API)
• Geoweb: Where are we?
  • What's here? Categories: Culture, shopping, food and drink, friends near here, weather forecast, public transport, translation, wikitravel, localphone, ATM, hotels (with booking), local phone numbers (taxi, police,

doctors, tourist info_, sports (passive, active), social activities (local church, etc.) nearby internet access.

• • • Food support could know of dietry requirements
  • Local translations
• All this with the ability to feedback
• I'm going to visit XYZ, cache me all the data I need and create a printable overview.
• Mobile phone tarrifs, dialing prefixes
• Local prices - what does hotel, food, travel etc. cost here?
• libocs (my location, nearby etc.)
• CIA world fact book