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How to Make Web Apps Shine in Gnome 3.10

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www.thepowerbase.com; By Dean Howell
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If you’ve had any experience appifying your favorite web services, you’ll notice that it’s pretty hit-and-miss — unless you’re using Gnome.

In Windows, you can pin sites you visit in Internet Explorer to the taskbar, causing a separate instance of IE to launch the page you intend to use. It’s clever enough to grab the favicon of the site you wish to appify, and transform it into a system icon. Not bad, really. Though it just doesn’t feel like a real app when it launches with all of Internet Explorer’s controls. KDE offers a similar...

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