[rekonq] Re: [RFC] Better Integration of Web Applications into Window Management

[Benjamin Poulain]

On 01/11/2011 08:20 PM, ext Martin Gräßlin wrote:
>> The more I read about this, the less I understand what is the
>> revolutionary idea. :(
>>
>> Could you summarize that in an example? Let say I have a web app:
>> "Google docs". It registers to the browser to handle .odt files and be
>> available offline.
>>
>> What do you suggest on top of that?
>>
>> My point of view is the engine should add an icon for such apps (the
>> user is asked for that of course), and the icon opens a chromeless
>> browser window.
>> If the same app is opened in the browser, it is not chromeless, it
>> behave as usual window.
> My idea is not to have "new windows for webapps".
>
> My idea is like the following:
> You have one browser window with multiple tabs:
> * GMail overview
> * GMail write new mail
> * Facebook page 1
> * Facebook page 2
> * Google Docs document 1
> * Google Docs document 2
> * 40 additional tabs with random browsing stuff
>
> What rekonq would do now is to add markers for GMail, Facebook and Google
> docs, so that they are known to the Desktop Shell. The 40 random tabs are not
> influenced. To decide what is marked for integration into the shell the
> "Pinned Tabs" could be used (so it does not have to be a web-app).
>
> This is quite orthogonal to the "one window per web-application". It exposes
> selected tabs to the desktop shell. It's nothing to replace the one window
> approach (which I would like to have, but does not exist yet, so it's mood
> point to discuss it) and even if the one window mode would exists it would not
> influence this feature at all.

Ok, I had totally missunderstood the intent.

That is an interesting idea indeed.

cheers,
Benjamin