[ge-talk] services

[Ari Haviv]

MacOSX has a services menu. For example, one service could convert
HAPPY to happy. Unfortunately their implementation is flawed. You
don't install services-your apps do. So the menu is overrun by
services you don't care for, hard to remove them and there are
keyboard shortcut conflicts.

See http://www.macworld.com/news/2005/12/21/services/index.php?lsrc=mwrss

I think services (and tracker add ons) should be part of Haiku-but
optionally installed and removed. Since Haiku is open source, any
developer can submit a service or tracker addon to haiku-os.org but
they would have to be tested for security and UI consistency. You
don't want a situation where someone can download something from who
knows where and mess up the OS.

Web services-now this is where it could get interesting. You would set
your blog from the OS and select some text in your word processor and
click on "Blog this" from a context menu. Select an image and send it
to your favorite photo sharing service like flickr. Select "$45.54"
and see how much in euros or any other currency.