Re: Applications Unnecessary?

[Milan Bouchet-Valat <nalimilan club fr>]

Le dimanche 03 mai 2009 à 17:37 +0100, Alex Anthony a écrit :
> A little idea I had for some (in some cases quite major) changes to
> Gnome shell. They probably go against everything already discussed, but
> there might be something about it that you like. And it doesn't address
> the remaining design questions.
While ideally I tend to think users should not have to care about
applications, but only about content, i.e. documents, people, websites
and so on, I fear we've not tackled many issues with that approach. I
think we really have applications that have the status of first-class
objects: think of Rhythmbox, F-Spot, Evolution, even Firefox and
possibly OpenOffice.org.

These applications can be used to work with a collection of contents,
and we're not going to fill the recent documents list with e-mails,
music tracks or photos. You could make them be a single meta-document
called "Music Library", "E-Mails" or so, maybe, that's a debate.

Designs about that are welcome! But IMHO that's not so easy to replace
without losing functionalities, and would require a complete redesign of
our desktop conception (we're here to do so!).