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A Mozilla Desktop Environment?

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"A discussion at the mozilla.dev.planning list has given the birth to the idea of a Mozilla Desktop Environment. This sure sounds like a possibility for Mozilla as it already has many of the applications needed; and the company is thoroughly familiar with XUL, which is a more-than-potent language upon which to build a desktop environment. By building a desktop environment Mozilla wouldn't have to worry about drivers (and such) and could choose from a variety of kernels, and still be in the center of attention. Mozilla has to expand some of the applications for this to work, though, like adding local file management with Firefox."

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Comments (5)

mjjohansen ·
- this would be very cool. It would have a great appeal for a lot of people... except for the Debian and gNewSense folks, who would have to rename it Birdcage DE.
Sander_Marechal ·
Nah. We all know that iceweasels and icedoves live on the south pole, along with the penguins. It'll be named the "South Pole Desktop Enviroment".
swbrown ·
> Nah. We all know that iceweasels and icedoves live on the south pole, along with the penguins. It'll be named the "South Pole Desktop Enviroment".

If we run Java apps on it, will they be called iced coffee?
Sander_Marechal ·
Ohh, frappée (greek iced coffee). Jummie :-)

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