Browserless Drupal

This is a research/brainstorming area on how to use Drupal without a web browser. The goal is to optimize development or rich UIs not using AJAX, typically local GTK-based UIs like PHP-GTK, PyGTK…

• What are the functions expected from a drupal client ?
  • identifying/authenticating the user
  • CRUD nodes
  • CRUD comments
  • reading RSS feeds
• Who does what in themeing
  • native OS theme on widgets: client-based
  • drupal theme: page layout / blocks

• Like other Drupal-related projects without a Drupal UI, identification/authentication is immediately essential for offload