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[Ari Haviv]

Yeah but the idea was that this should be a special folder that looks
distinct and you just double click to open.

I'm also not a big fan of addons in general for other reasons. Which is
surprising because I love them. I love the power and flexibility. But i have
come to the conclusion (though while kicking and screaming!) they cause some
pretty big problems (they are true for firefox as well):
1) lack of security and quality because instead of dealing with 1 system,
you now have to test and check 1 system plus all these little independent
parts with bugs and dependencies.
2) usability goes down because now you have all kinds of funky UI's that
don't work together. Addons are usually dumped in a long list with their own
options dialogs and menus
3) it's very hard to localize the OS+addons.
4) usually what happens, you update the OS or firefox and all those addons
now don't work.
5) most people won't know these addons exist or what are the good ones. They
have to do a lot of work to get a full featured system
6) it's harder for sysadmins to manage and train when they don't know how
the OS is expected to work

This is why i think in the long run, a browser like Flock, which tries to
integrate many features in a nice way may be a better browser than firefox
It's also why linux is a mess, as it is based on lots of parts cobbled
together such as the linux kernel and then X from another group and gtk and
cairo and gnome and then a distro's package manager...

On 1/5/07, niklas at nisbeth.dk <niklas at nisbeth.dk> wrote:
>
> Exactly. You'd put yer all your project related docs in a folder, right
> click the folder and use the "Launch all in this folder" tracker add-on.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Ari Haviv" <arielbhaviv at gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2007 03:51:40 -0500
> To: glasselevator-talk at bug-br.org.br
> Subject: Re: [ge-talk] icon "groups"
>
> >well, unlike a startup folder with a browser in it, it wouldn't open a
> blank
> >browser. it would open up the browser set to load a certain page or group
> of
> >tabs. or a word processor with a certain doc. This way, if you have a
> >project, you just click once and you have everything you need
> >
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