Re: A clutter based Epiphany, maybe?

[Xan Lopez <xan gnome org>]

Hi Alexis,

it's not very clear to me what you are proposing exactly, but at least
in the Clutter/eye candy camp we already have plans to use those
technologies. We didn't make it for 3.4, but see for example the
proposal for clutter-based page switching that might be available in
3.6: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2VALT-DMGU&feature=channel_video_title

Xan

On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 1:48 PM, alex diavatis
<alexis diavatis gmail com> wrote:
> 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
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