A Mozilla Desktop Environment?

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."

Comments

This is a joke right? riiight????

[protomala]

C'mon! XUL is the worse part of Mozilla/Firefox/Whathever!
It's bloated like hell (just run konqueror and opera and see how it compares to firefox), complicated to program.. and you want a entire desktop written with it?

Oh yes, what's next, a Java slowperating system? :)

Re:Think of the memory

[bahwi]

Bah, once Vista in the norm everyone will have at least 4 gigs. Yeah, you can run it on 2, you can also run XP on 128. How much do you have? Hell, I've got 2gb and it's not even enough for Zend + Azureus at the same time.

GET RID OF X WINDOWS

[Anonymous Coward]

Time for X11 to fucking die. Innovation, although sometimes painful, is necessary.

Re:GET RID OF X WINDOWS

[Heembo]

I praise your wisdom, brother.

Re:Think of the memory

[JimDaGeek]

Think about the memory usage.

Do you mean like MS Vista?

I would much rather have a cross platform desktop environment that lets me run on Mac, Linux and MS Windows than some MS-Only desktop programming model. I run all three OS'es I listed. The only one I have problems with from a cross plat-form programming perspective is MS Windows. Gee, I wonder why? Can you say lock-in?