Daemons... from the hell...

Today I discovered the music player daemon project. This is a wonderful idea I totally agree with. Splitting all the services into client/server architecture would bring to some very good results.

First of all, different clients could share same data with great effects on migration from one client to another.

Second, unifying the efforts on the server side, we could achieve better products sooner.

Third: interoperability. Among different desktop environments. The daemon should run at a lower level than DE (when possible), so that it could be possible to change DE without losing personal settings.

I can think at least to two different fields that would take some advantages from a client/server architecture:

• Instant Messaging: if we had only a server that provides access to different protocols (jabber, msn, skype, irc, etc.), it would be nice. Especially because every client would take advantage of any progress made on the server. I'm not the only one that thinks that this approach would be useful. These people agree with me ;-).
• Music and sound players: having the same server means having the same music library, the same settings, the same playing quality, etc.