Hi!
Am 28.03.2006 um 03:50 schrieb Nicolas Roard:
Seeing the growth of web applications (if you want to see some cool
webapp for instance, have a look to the 7 minutes dabbledb demo at
http://dabbledb.com/utr/ ) and the omnipresence of the web into our
daily computer life, I'm wondering how a traditional desktop fits in,
and specially, what étoilé should do...
[...]
I don't think it's possible to integrate Webapps nicely into any
desktop system.
The web somehow got to be the third big platform for application
interfaces and
is thus in concurrence with traditional GUI applications and
applications running
on text terminals. When looking at the level of integration that
current desktop
environments provide for terminal applications, I doubt that trying
to integrate
web applications would make much sense. Of course it is possible to a
certain
extent, but that's something the web browser should take care of.
Comparing GNUstep applications that open URLs with URL-bookmark files
(like when you drag URLs from Camino to the desktop), I came to the
conclusion
that I like the bookmark files more, because I understand them
instantly and I'm
not afraid they may be encapsulating something I don't know (and
maybe don't
trust).
-Günther
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