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["balint777@xxxxxxxxx" <balint777@xxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry if it was discussed before, anyway...
I have been using Android and Windows 8 recently quite a lot. These two
guys have one pretty clever feature, i would certainly like to have in
Ubuntu. Its their data-sharing protocoll.
Basically applications have the ability to register one of their methods to
share data held by them through a protocoll to an other application. This
makes literally every application compatible with each other.

Applications would be able to:

   - Register a method for messaging -> no need to iplement switches in
   every application to turn notifications off, because the desktop can
   control it.
   - Register method for sharing the data it holds -> Files could be
   immediately retrieved from various sources.
   - Register itself for certain file types -> User immediately offered
   those apps when opens a file.

Well... there could be tons of roles an application could be regitered to.
There is an initiative in elementary os already:
http://elementaryos.org/docs/human-interface-guidelines/desktop-integration/contractor

What do you think we could use this for? Do we have something likely
already?


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