I’m sorry if this is a little bit off-topic, but I want to voice my support for this work.
On 18 December 2015 at 03:38, Fabrice Desré <[email protected]> wrote: > During summer 2014 I had a GSoc student work on packaging b2g desktop as > a desktop environment for Debian based distributions. The repo is at > https://github.com/r1n3m/b2gian Overall it matters less and less what operating system one uses. Observing casual computer users (i.e. non-developers) they appear to increasingly use their terminals just to bootstrap a web browser. The real computation happens elsewhere, in a data centre. This doesn’t mean everything is connected; _some_ pieces just happens to be connected to the cloud, which isn’t quite the same thing as a uniform environment. Perhaps this is an opportunity for Mozilla to make the web experience more uniform. The logical next step is to make the web platform the widget set and desktop experience. CSS styling is something existing DEs have embraced for some time. Giving websites the ability to offer install-less, non-siloed, pin-the-web style integration directly to their users’ immediate desktop is an exciting thought experiment. Even for me as a developer, the vast majority of things I do on my local laptop terminal happens in the browser; with the exception of an editor and an SSH connection to a remote compile machine. It would be quite exciting if Firefox OS was able to fill this gap, but with access to the existing Linux ecosystem underneath, something Chrome OS for some reason isn’t providing. On smartphone we didn’t have this opportunity to integrate with the existing software ecosystem, partly because it was marginal and/or missing. I’m sure there are steps along this path which can be achieved with more or less work than others. _______________________________________________ dev-fxos mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-fxos
