Well do you have any good suggestions for how to fix the issues you've encountered? Or any good design suggestions to make it a bit less of a mess? What about with regard to the topic of this thread, any interesting ideas for fitting into the sound menu more scalably?
Alex On Jan 9, 2013, at 3:19 PM, Jonathan Meek <shrouded.cl...@gmail.com> wrote: > A bit late, but I would like to add my own thoughts to this: I absolutely > agree with Mr. Bicha about web-apps in 12.10 (having finally downloaded it to > test the new toolkit). They are a bit of a mess. And I, as a seasoned user, > find their launcher behavior almost indecipherable given the context. Am I > just visiting a fancy browser window or am I actually using something that is > supposed to be its own thing? And getting them to install was a hassle and no > feedback for when it didn't work... Tried to install GMail three times before > it worked with no feedback as to why it failed the previous times. And plus > one to the completely chromeless argument. > > Pandora just suddenly showed in my sound menu unexpectedly as well. I guess > I'm mostly trying to say what Jeremy said: a good start but far from perfect. > > > On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 10:43 AM, Jeremy Bicha <jbi...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > On 13 December 2012 09:57, Alex Launi <alex.la...@canonical.com> wrote: > > Like any software, webapps will always be incomplete. The implementation > > of the integration was not poor (at least I don't like to think so), but > > there were features that got de-scoped for 12.10. Chromeless browsing in > > Firefox was one item. There is a chromeless mode for Chromium, it exists > > in 12.10. Chromeless mode does not, however, prevent you from having > > multiple tabs. You could have 10 instances of Facebook, or YouTube in > > one of these chromeless browser windows. Chromeless mode is accessed > > when you have a launcher icon and launch a new instance of a webapp from > > it. Integration should always work from the browser though, how else > > would you find that a webapp exists? > > I think that Firefox or Chromium should prompt for installing webapps > like it does. > > Without chromeless mode, I (as a user) see webapps as being just fancy > bookmarks that may also have notification or indicator support. I > think chromeless mode *should* prevent you from opening multiple tabs > because a standalone webapp is not a full-featured web browser (that's > just the backend, an implementation detail). Links to external domains > (not white-listed in the particular webapp config) should open in your > regular web browser because a webapp should act like a native app as > much as possible. > > For me, proper chromeless mode is an essential part of webapps so > that's why I was disappointed with 12.10's implementation (I don't > mean to hurt the feelings of those who spent months working on the > feature; I expected that that feature would instead land in 13.04). > > Jeremy > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~unity-design > Post to : unity-design@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~unity-design > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~unity-design > Post to : unity-design@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~unity-design > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
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