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[Alan Bell <alanbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 15/10/12 16:08, Anders Wallenquist wrote:
> A couple of months ago I was demonstrating OpenERP at a large swedish 
> government agency for a project group working with next generation 
> platform. This group wanted to have OpenERP demonstrated on Ubuntu 
> 12.04, and during the demonstration it became obvious that they 
> thought the HUD (Heads Up Display) was an important feature. Its a 
> desktop feature working fast with applications just using keyboard. 
> They had a criteria that all applications they choose should work the 
> same way and HUD was one of them.
well you can integrate with the HUD from a web app, and this is 
something I might have a crack at implementing in OpenERP at some point 
(but if anyone else wants to beat me to it then feel free)
http://developer.ubuntu.com/api/ubuntu-12.04/javascript/
there are various integration points for web based applications to link 
into different parts of the Ubuntu desktop, like notifications, HUD, 
messaging menu and launcher actions.

> As long as we have a modern GTK-client, functions like that will be 
> automagical implemented because it comes with Python/GTK. But this is 
> an example of what a web client never will deliver.
. . . oh yes it will!
> I have heard that it's not only Swedish government that implements 
> Ubuntu, Libreoffice and a bunch other free software as next generation 
> standard plattform. It would be nice if OpenERP could be one of 
> prefered applications in this type of context.
I think so too

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