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[Michael Hall <mhall119@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> I don't fully understand why are you mentioning that there will be a
> "large" number of  web applications .   It would be simply one lens
> full of links to the user's  preferred web applications  (actually
> websites...) .   These can be maybe 10-20 ,  not thousands .   It's
> hard to see what is the big novelty here :   in 10.04   it is already
> possible to create an app launcher that starts firefox with a specific
> url.
>
> Hopefully there is no intention to have in the Dash a huge list of all
> the websites that exist in the world , right  ?!
>
> So the idea would be to have the user's recently accessed websites
> presented inside Dash?   This sounds handy if  done right  :   if
> it's dynamic it would need a clever algorithm for ignoring the
> irrelevant urls .
The idea is to show the user applications, regardless of where they are. 
 We're not talking about websites in general, but rather applications 
that are delivered over the web, like GMail and Google Docs.  These are 
still applications, and should still be shown in the Applications lens, 
not in a separate lens.


Michael Hall
mhall119@xxxxxxxxxx