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A Mozilla Desktop Environment?

Posted by kdawson on from the why-not dept.

Andreas writes "A discussion at the mozilla.dev.planning list has given the birth to the idea of a Mozilla Desktop Environment. This sure sounds like a possibility for Mozilla as it already has many of the applications needed; and the company is thoroughly familiar with XUL, which is a more-than-potent language upon which to build a desktop environment. By building a desktop environment Mozilla wouldn't have to worry about drivers (and such) and could choose from a variety of kernels, and still be in the center of attention. Mozilla has to expand some of the applications for this to work, though, like adding local file management with Firefox."

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  1. Re:I have an idea by that+this+is+not+und · · Score: 0, Redundant

    They could call it.. oh, I don't know... SeaMonkey!

    Of course, add a WYSIWYG HTML editor to the list above (why do people always forget that??)

  2. Re:I have an idea by pembo13 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Great idea, and we could call it Mozilla, or Seamonkey.

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