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

[Martin Gräßlin]

On Tuesday 11 January 2011 16:14:14 you wrote:
> On Tuesday 11 January 2011 15:31:57 Lionel Chauvin wrote:
> > Hi Martin,
> > 
> > >Nevertheless they would still live in the browser.
> > 
> > If I understand well your idea, some tabs of rekonq will have their own
> > entries in the task list and some will not.
> > I propose a better idea:
> > Create a dedicated version of rekonq for web apps.
> > This version will:
> > - show the icon of the website as icon of the window
> > - remove the name of rekonq in the title of the window (I don't know how
> > but I am sure it is possible), only keep the name of the website (eg.
> > Google map). - clic on a link: if it is a internal link of the website
> > then open it in the web app window else open it in the normal rekonq
> > version.
> > - remove the urlbar
> > - remove the tool button-menu
> > - remove new tab button
> > - hide tab bar by default
> > - keep previous,next and reload buttons ?
> > - adapt context menu accordingly
> > 
> > In the normal version of rekonq:
> > - add actions somewhere in the UI to register a website as a web app.
> > - clic on a link: if it is a link of registered web app: open it in its
> > dedicated window (perhaps in a new tab) and focus this window.
> > 
> > I propose a related idea:
> > create packages that depends on rekonq for easily install web
> > applications. these packages will add entries in kickoff.
> > Lionel Chauvin.
> 
> From what I remember this pretty much sounds like what silk/selkie aimed
> for. 
Yes that is exactly the silk usecase and completely orthogonal to what I 
presented. It would solve the "web applications need to be application" 
problem but it requires a different workflow and would not improve the 
situation for tabbed browsers. So having the one does not obsolete the need 
for the other.

Cheers
Martin
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