Susuto

It’s about moving the messaging, voice-chat, video-chat, games and file-transfers to the level of the operating system.

Beyond just providing a nice messenger, it also unifies and makes it easier to:
- play chess with glchess against somebody on your friend’s list
- share rhythmbox music with friends on your contact list
- add somebody to your contact list from evolution
- etc.

Not all of that will be done immediately, but the developpers of programs can say ‘give a video feed to user X from contact list Y’. They don’t have to write all that code themselves and they don’t need to configure your IM accounts and everything; since it’s done on the level op the operating system.

Sometimes having something as a default infrastructure makes all the difference.