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New Linux Desktop Environment Built on Firefox
IL-CSIXTY4 writes "'Pyro is a new kind of desktop environment for Linux built on Mozilla Firefox. Its goal is to enable true integration between the Web and modern desktop computing.'
This looks like an interesting marriage of the web and the desktop. In Pyro, Web apps run in windows on the desktop, right alongside desktop apps (through compositing). Features expected in a desktop environment, like task/window selection and an Expose-like function, are written in Javascript." "
Already slashdotted after the first comment, so ... this is what the future web-desktop will be like huh?
Didn't we learn our lesson with Active Desktop? This is one of the reasons I use Firefox instead of IE. It's not so tied into the OS that when it crashes, it's taking down other apps as well.
right alongside desktop apps (through compositing).
At first I thought that said through composting. Guess you'd have to call that organic computing.
On a serious note....Instead, trusted Web sites and extensions are given access to the full range of interactivity and control enjoyed by native applications today.
The "trust" issue would loom very large in that statement. Provides some interesting possibilities all the same.
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First, all computers wait at the same speed, and presumably the point here is to accomplish something heavily dependent on the network. Even the best network (in my experience) winds up being the limiting factor.
Second, the applications are not likely to depend on the speed of the processor for much, in the user's experience. Now obviously, if we're using bloated software like Word to accomplish what notepad could do, we'll feel the hit. On the other hand, I'm consistently frustrated by the sloth of OO apps. So if FIrefox offers an equally slow solution that is better integrated, I say it's a winner.
Of course, I haven't RTFA, as it is FSD'ed.
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On this interpretation, we should never use artificial intelligence because of Clippy.
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Here's the Google Cache:
p yrodesktop.org/+http://pyrodesktop.org&hl=en&ct=cl nk&cd=1&gl=us
http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:6EoAZGSE90IJ:
Wasn't this done with MS in Windows 98, the Active Desktop? See how well that worked? Why would anyone want this?
.NET 3.0 except it's much slower, much less secure and runs on JavaScript. Complete winner!
That was done in 1998. It was early Web 1.0, and people didn't dig web stuff so much. But now, it's different. There are plenty of uses for a web based desktop, and to quote their site:
Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@pyrodesktop.org and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.
More information about this error may be available in the server error log.
Additionally, a 500 Internal Server Error error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
I think Microsoft is totally shaking in their boots at the thought of Pyro: just consider, a connected, integrated, web desktop. It's just like
Didn't everyone agree a long time ago that integrating IE into the OS and using it as a shell was a bad idea?
So what is it that makes this any different?
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