How to make Magento & Drupal fall in love?

- Templating system, or other easy way to match templates;

- Drupal CMS navigation integration into Magento :: perhaps as a Magento module that reads Drupal navigation? With custom CSS;

- Ability to show Magento products inside Drupal (along nodes) :: can we use the magento 1.1 Web Api tools for this?

- User integration :: register on Drupal & checkout on Magento?

- Integration of user roles and access rights? That will be a major difficulty!

- Show Magento categorie & products in Drupal Views, as customizable lists/tables? E.g. to show “latest products” block on the Drupal homepage?

What else? Just trying to start this. It will take a long time!

Having developed Drupal systems for years, i have never found the e-commerce system to be as tight or as feature rich as i would like. We could spend time making the Drupal eCommerce modules better, or as some others have done with vBulletin, SMForums and similar best of class software, find ways to integrate the two systems and enjoy the best of both Drupal and Magento.

Getting started now while Magento is being developed will let us build the knowledge needed to create useful success in the coming years.