A clutter based Epiphany, maybe?

[alex diavatis <alexis diavatis gmail com>]

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