Re: websites-as-apps?

["Luis Villa" <luis villa gmail com>]

On 5/15/06, Michael Gratton <mike vee net> wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-05-15 at 21:05 -0400, Luis Villa wrote:
> > I'd like to be able to trivially add them to my application
> > menu somehow, either from the browser or from gimmie, but I'm not sure
> > what interaction model to propose for that. Anyone have any
> > suggestions on how that should be done (or how it can be done now and
> > I'm missing it?)
>
> You can already drag the site icon from the address bar to a panel to
> create a launcher. That can then be dragged to the desktop to create a
> launcher there as well. It would be nice if dragging the site icon to
> the desktop just created a launcher instead of copying the file, must
> remember to file a bug about that.

This doesn't put it in the menu, though (though I am guessing there is
potentially some way to then drag it magically to alacarte or
something?) I want to be able to access it and manipulate it
consistently with how I manipulate the rest of my applications-
through the menu, menu editor, and associated tools.

[As an aside, any behavior that depends on drag-and-drop is certainly
not accessible :)

> I imagine Gimmie could accept drops of the site icon to allow the same
> thing, if it doesn't already.

It doesn't; I didn't propose it directly because I wasn't sure that
was the right behavior.

> It shouldn't be to hard to write a PyEpy extension that takes the
> current page and adds it to the user's menu. It would add something like
> a "Add Launcher to {Menu|Panel|Desktop}" menu item, which if selected
> displays a dialog like Epy's current Add Bookmark dialog, but for the
> menu/panel/whatever.

That might be nifty.

Luis