Fwd: Shelling Epiphany

[Tirtha Chatterjee <tirtha p chatterjee gmail com>]

On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 12:21 AM, Alexandre Mazari <scaroo gmail com> 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?
>
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Tirtha Chatterjee
National Institue of Technology, Durgapur
India