Ubuntu passes to Web Apps

Much like Chrome OS, also based on Linux, Ubuntu succumbs to Web applications. Canonical Announces Web Apps and functionality that will be a default in the next release of Ubuntu 12.10 to come out in October.

Ubuntu users will be able to run directly on the desktop of online applications like Twitter, eBay, YouTube or Gmail that are cited as examples. The goal is to get web applications that behave like desktop applications.

This idea is hardly new. Experiments have already taken place with Web browsers. With pinning sites in the taskbar of Windows 7, Internet Explorer 9 also offers something similar.

To create a Web application, the Ubuntu user clicks on a link to a website compatible. An icon is added in the application launcher. The performance takes place in a standalone browser window. Efforts have so far been concentrated around Firefox, but Chrome and Chromium support is in the works.

These Web Apps will benefit from interaction with the operating system and for example with the notification system, for volume control and playback of video or music applications, the launch of Facebook photos from Shotwell.

The Web Apps will benefit from the new HUD (Head-Up Display) menus meant to replace traditional applications in Ubuntu. HUD allows you to type commands rather than navigate through menus.

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