Ubiquity on local desktop

[yashka]

Hi,

I am just thinking out loud,
but why not seeing ubiquity outside of the browser
like a clever shortcut that know to bring me from the internet
information I need,
from weather to getting my daily sandy planning, catching this wiki
definition and more...

It require to actually externalize most of the web func of a today
browser, and putting them as a OS service || deamon
then a top application slice for visual interpretation.

just an idea,
y.

[Guy Fraser]

yashka wrote:
> I am just thinking out loud,
> but why not seeing ubiquity outside of the browser
> like a clever shortcut that know to bring me from the internet
> information I need,
> from weather to getting my daily sandy planning, catching this wiki
> definition and more...
>

The desktop is slowly moving _in_ to the web browser, especially when it
comes to things like Google Chrome :D

[Blair McBride]

I can't seem to find it right now, but there was a short discussion
about this somewhere... If I remember right, it didn't really come to
anything other than "that would be nice".

- Blair

[yashka]

Hmm, maybe it is not hight priority step, but I think it will have to
come at some point.

[Guy Fraser]

yashka wrote:
> Hmm, maybe it is not hight priority step, but I think it will have to
> come at some point.
>

I guess there would be herds of security risks in doing it for desktop?

[yashka]

In a sense you are right but here the whole point of the idea
is not really to get ride of the browser, but more to get rid of
artificial fences existing between information sources.
In recent computing stuff, we have seen the web can bring some
positive improvement to desktop application, as in google bar / XP
bar / "any widget bar heavily based on web".
With chrome, we try to transform the browser into an application
manager with multi thread inner management, and other nice feature...
Why not getting a bit more crazy, let's integrate !
Take out the browser core from the browser interface. Take out
javascript, add it as background interpreter.
And build on the top of that many application that will commicate with
the Net throught this integrate "browser",
including a browser (interface), ubiquity...
Get more crazy, take other services out, then make your all destop
completly web integrated....
A Folder, a mail message, or doc file, a url, a rss stream, all at
same level...

[Christina]

I was thinking along the same lines yesterday. I really want Ubiquity
available from my desktop without having to startup the browser. Then
Ubiquity can start my browser if needed to display results from the
internet. Otherwise it can just show me the answer in its own little
display.