Hi Alexis, it's not very clear to me what you are proposing exactly, but at least in the Clutter/eye candy camp we already have plans to use those technologies. We didn't make it for 3.4, but see for example the proposal for clutter-based page switching that might be available in 3.6: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2VALT-DMGU&feature=channel_video_title
Xan On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 1:48 PM, alex diavatis <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello there, > > First of all, congratulations about Epiphany 3.4, that I really like it, > specially on full screen mode, with hidden control bar. > However, I am a bit concerned about the future of Epiphany, as I don't see > it to make any impact, not even on small Distros. > While Gnome Developers do amazing things on Shell & Boxes, it seems that > they ignore the most important piece of a complete > OS, the web-browser. > > I realize that Epiphany wants to be a simple and lightweight browser, but it > ends up as a poor featured browser, unusable for web surfing. > To be honest, I am not quite sure if Epiphany would catch up with Chromium & > Firefox in the near future -if ever, and that makes me to > wonder if there is a purpose of existence for this project. > > Well, you all know the critical importance of a web-browser, that nowdays > maybe is the browser that defines the OS, and not the > OS that defines the browser - and by browser I mean the whole > browser/internet experience. > > > Bringing on my mind some aspects .. > > - Web Browse isn't a menu based App, not quite a need for GTK Widgets > - Clutter, Mutter / Shell are very closed projects > - Gnome Devs are doing Clutter > - There is already a Clutter webkit > - Shell manages the Desktop > - Google's native client approach > > ..I have this "maybe" is time for a Clutter based web-browser. > > A full screen, (silent until you use it) web-browser that will run always > on the top of the Desktop, a browser that even could handle Desktop > wallpapers (with online Sync), and a browser that would run HTML5 apps as a > widgets on your Desktop. > > Can you imagine the possibilities and the advantages on this > approach (rhetorical question)? > > I think that you own the infrastructure, and you are willing to do > innovative eye-candy things :) > > Thanx, > - alex > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > epiphany-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/epiphany-list > _______________________________________________ epiphany-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/epiphany-list
