On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 12:21 AM, Alexandre Mazari <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Maciej, > > Thanks for your comments. >> >> What does constitute single app? > > It's up to the user as she will be able to "applify" any website. > A lot of sites offer more than just data visualization, and have strong > behaviour logic (whether on the client- or server-side, that doesn't > really matter). > But I'd say the criterias for "real" apps apply here too: > An application is a tool helping in the realization of a certain task by > automatizing...blablabla... :) > GMail, Bugzilla, Identica, Twitter, Google Docs, Horde Mail, Last.fm and > so many more appear to me as good candidates. > >> And as person who have 5-50 tabs opened at the same time - won't it >> clutter interface? >> > Apps could be tabbed (or whatever comes from the discution thread) too: > all your Bugzilla opened pages would be grouped in one application for > example. > That would actually make switching to a specific bug: alt-tab (or > overview) to your Bugzilla application, then find the corresponding tab, > instead of looking in a crazy long tabs' notebook in the browser (not > mentioning the searched tab might not be visible at first). > >> I would disagree. The tabbing is additional to windows not a substitute. > > A needed complimentary in current desktops, we agree here. > But I am pretty sure a more clever shell/wm could alleviate such a > requirement. > >> It may be substitute to workspaces+windows though but still there is a >> difference: >> >> - Workspaces usually have up to 3 windows of the same application at >> which point it IMHO breaks under the complexity of managing (ideally 3 >> windows at all) with no particular order >> - Tabs usually have >5 tabs usually organised by some means. For >> example it have blog post #1, response to blog post #1, response to >> response to blog post #1... Also they may be much more short lived. > > Yup, but if you think in term of apps, instead of website, you can > spread them on different topic-orented workspaces, for example: > - GMail and Twitter *applications* in your communication one, neighbours > to Empathy > - LiveJournal and/or b.g.o applications in a "Blogging" workspace > - Google Docs and LibreOffice on office > - you get the idea > > Again, each of those apps can be tabbed (or windows grouped or whatever)
Can this be taken up as a GSOC project? Is the scope large enough? > > > _______________________________________________ > epiphany-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/epiphany-list > -- Tirtha Chatterjee National Institue of Technology, Durgapur India _______________________________________________ epiphany-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/epiphany-list
