[Panel-devel] Quick comment on Marc Cramdal's ALI blog

[Wade Olson]

1) Metadata: He mentions about hovering over an application and receiving 
information about the application before launch (through Konqi/Clippy or 
otherwise). I like this idea quite a bit. Last launch, 'About' information 
(version, etc), and the same brief description that Kicker gives would be 
quite useful. Especially to new Linux users that are staring down 45 email 
client options (shame on you distros). For those minimalists, maybe an info 
toggle might appease?

2) Application Launching in general: I'd to hear people's thoughts on 
application bundles. People in different roles may consistently launch the 
same group of applications. One example would be the group that you have 
start automatically on boot-up. A developer may want KDevelop, a DB client, 
Konqeror and a code profiler to launch together. So maybe letting a user 
define a logical bundle of similar apps, and displaying those bundles for 
launch (with corresponding bundle CRUD window) could be slick on the ALI.

Wade
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