Re: [Usability] An interesting video

[Andre Klapper <ak-47 gmx net>]

Am Freitag, den 14.08.2009, 08:37 +1930 schrieb Dokuro:
> Anton wrote:
> > Another point of view would be that the desktop should be more web oriented
> > and all of today's services like facebook and twitter should be easily
> > accessible from within the desktop (e.g. If I want to upload a picture to
> > facebook that would be presented as an option in  the context menu [maybe
> > plugin?] and the progress would show as ordinary file copy dialog).
> 
> that would be the best, that way the only time people would have to
> visit the web page might be just at account creation; i don't think
> web-masters would like that (if it got popular) since the fact that
> people access the web-site is what gives them $$.
> 
> EX. this is a program that allows access to X (facebook, twitter,
> identi.ca, etc) without going to the web page.

This all partially already exists. There's e.g. conduit in GNOME.
Also see the last two years of debating the "Online Desktop".

andre
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