Fluxbox with Dillo modified
Have a look at your favorite newspaper this morning. An Editor decides what the news is. You subscribe to an editors view when buy the paper. Looking above, you can consume what you get as you get it or you can fill that space around the browser with information, links, etc. It is more than a Home Page, it is home or office or wherever the netsurfer-worker is.
UPDATE & further explination - thanks Johan!): Dillo is a small, fast web browser. It is running on the EFIKA itself. This is different than the IBM/VMWare approach featured in yesterday's blog. The idea is that you can design (part of) the user interface and "host" this interface on the T1000 ( EFIKA/T1000 Thin Client Solution – An Overview and How To ). Like this you can create a set-top-box like graphical interface. The good thing is that this can be designed remotely and all clients can have the up-to-date GUI, with possibilities to add news, pictures, ads, etc. Now for the fun part: the browser can be used to launch external programs. This means that the user can start applications such as OpenOffice, Firefox, etc. from clicking on the appropriate link. Hence, you can divide your applications across multiple HTML pages, which the administrator can adapt based on the users' needs and wants. In this way, we can offer a set of general applications on the FluxBox desktop while allowing other applications to be 'published' by adding a link on the website. Dillo has a really nice plugin system that makes this possible - we have it up and running to start Opera for instance. This adds the advantage that you can publish web-apps (Google) by clicking on a link, which will open in Opera, Firefox, etc. The HTML GUI can be customized with CSS, thus you can make blend in with the general GUI theme of the Fluxbox desktop. So, you can create your set-top box/internet appliance/embedded whatever GUI in any flavor you want, all you need to do is change the CSS/HTML.
Thin is in, but thin with muscles is better. The EFIKA is versatile, silent, small in size, highly energy efficient, and inexpensive in price with no moving parts. It can be everywhere - especially when it gets smaller and mobile, but first the software (all of it that is)!
How does that look?
Be more than aPod. The Community is the Computer. Go Zig!
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