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[Merlijn Sebrechts <merlijn.sebrechts@xxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

This is a bug for scopes in general. Please move it if this is not the
correct package.

There is a lot of potential in the scopes concept, but I think the
current implementation leaves much to be desired.

Take the music app/scope as an example. If you want to play a local song
you have two options: Either play it in the scope, or open the real
music app and play it there. I think there should not be a distinction
between these to. Playing a song in the music scope should have the same
behaviour as the rhytmbox intigration in Unity7. Clicking play opens the
music app in the background and starts playing the song. Music controls
are still available in the scope itself.

There is a lot of potential here. If you embrace this concept a bit
more, the music scope can become your "everythingplayer". Playing local
music and soundcloud music as if they were all in the same app.. The
scope is only the aggregate of data, the actual playback is handled by
the underlying (web)apps.

There is currently a clear distinction between what information and
actions are app-related and which are not. I thing the scope concept
really suffers from this. Scope should be aggregates of data and
functions, not a portal to different apps.

The music scope is not the only one suffering from this...

** Affects: unity8 (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1436927

Title:
  Scopes -> (web)App communication really clunky

Status in unity8 package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  This is a bug for scopes in general. Please move it if this is not the
  correct package.

  There is a lot of potential in the scopes concept, but I think the
  current implementation leaves much to be desired.

  Take the music app/scope as an example. If you want to play a local
  song you have two options: Either play it in the scope, or open the
  real music app and play it there. I think there should not be a
  distinction between these to. Playing a song in the music scope should
  have the same behaviour as the rhytmbox intigration in Unity7.
  Clicking play opens the music app in the background and starts playing
  the song. Music controls are still available in the scope itself.

  There is a lot of potential here. If you embrace this concept a bit
  more, the music scope can become your "everythingplayer". Playing
  local music and soundcloud music as if they were all in the same app..
  The scope is only the aggregate of data, the actual playback is
  handled by the underlying (web)apps.

  There is currently a clear distinction between what information and
  actions are app-related and which are not. I thing the scope concept
  really suffers from this. Scope should be aggregates of data and
  functions, not a portal to different apps.

  The music scope is not the only one suffering from this...

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