Glossary
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BrainTop
The original project from which derive Lobotomy, implement a specialized window manager. No longer under development, details about his role is on the history of Lobotomy Project.
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Dejavu
Navigation mode throught previously opened templates, implemented in Synapse. For details look at the specific page?.
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FreeRunner
The well know open phone by OpenMoko Inc, will be the device on which the mobile Lobotomy environment will be developed.
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Hyppocampus
The lower level of the Lobotomy stack: implements a relational storage and completely wraps access to the effective filesystem. For details look at the specific page.
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Item
May be a synonym of "file" in the Lobotomy system, but more in general it rappresent a single unit of information. For details look at the specific page.
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Lobotam
Sub-project of Lobotomy, involves a prototype system where the Hyppocampus storage is substituted by a Xesam provider. For details look at the specific page.
Lobotomy
Collective name for a set of sub-project integrated each other so to act as a unique computing system, it began the identifier for the whole work.
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Metadata
The core for each elaboration on Lobotomy. Each item is a set of metadata, included its contents, and on metadata (which are classified by a number of attributes) are built all dynamic graphical interfaces and relations. For details look at the specific page.
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SCD
Abbreviation for SubConsciousDaemon.
Synapse
The only graphical application ideally running on a Lobotomy environment, includes the interpreter for Thoughts and manage navigation between them. It may be implemented in different forms (web, local, for mobile devices...) because is an abstract frontend isolated by the functional components. For details look at the specific page.
SubConsciousDaemon
The metadata indexer in Lobotomy, automatically populates Hyppocampus storage and updates contents when required. It also orchestrates all "middleware" services used by Synapse to execute advanced task, such as sending a mail. For details look at the specific page.
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Template
Mostly used as synonym of Thought.
Thought
Sort of template used to layout data coming from Hyppocampus. They are files interpreted by Synapse, which dispose the mentioned Widgets on the screen and fill them with contents retrived from items to which the Thought is applied. From some point of view, Thoughts are the applications in the Lobotomy system. For details look at the specific page.
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Widget
The building block for Thoughts: they are specific graphical components disposed and filled by Synapse as described in the active template. More about them on the Synapse page.
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Xesam
Standard to accessing semantic informations on the Linux desktop, promoted by FreeDesktop.org. It is used in the Lobotam subproject.
