On 11/15/06, Quentin Mathé <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Le 15 nov. 06 à 00:03, Yen-Ju Chen a écrit :
> Since we have PaneKit on hand,
> it seems relatively easy to have something like Watson (or Sherlock
> on mac):
> http://www.karelia.com/watson/
>
> Although people may be more interested in something lik Dashboard,
> I have to say it is not available soon unless someone want to work
> on XUL.
>
> Anyway, this kind of application which gathers several small tools may
> be useful.
> Any comment ?
Dashboard serves a different purpose I think, that's why it doesn't
replace Sherlock or Watson well.
Well, then I am thinking more about Dashboard.
Considering each pane is a small application, internet-related or not,
we can have an application to put everything together.
And since PaneKit provide different kind of presentation,
user can easily change the look.
If someone write a window presentation which put every pane in
individual window,
then we got something similar to dashboard.
And if we have SteptTalk+Io, we can even write the small application
in script.
There are some small applications which may not be worth to write alone,
but would be interesting to put together,
something like small dictionary, address book view, clock with time
zone, tracking shipment.
For address book, we can simply use AddressesKit.
For dicitionary, if DictionaryReader.app provides a way to do that,
it will also be easy.
In other word, it is a small version of some common applications,
like "an application in a view" thing.
That's pretty much my first intention.
Yen-Ju
On the other hand, Sherlock/Watson never really worked very well
because in my opinion they were standalone applications (not part of
the web browser). The effort involved in switching constantly between
Sherlock/Watson and the web browser led me to use them rarely.
If we integrate their modules directly into the web browser (aka
Mantella for now) and we combine their features with tabbed browsing
support, I think the result could prove to be quite useful. This is
basically the idea behind a web browser like Flock (if we put apart
the social experience emphasis). Firefox extensions can be considered
as an another approach of the same problem.
Cheers,
Quentin.
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