[dev] Dashboard and anchoring the apps in Horde4

[Gunnar Wrobel]

Hi!

I recently created a demo server setup for the current Horde4 version  
which will hopefully also go online as demo.horde.org soon. Looking at  
the full groupware stack in action as available from our current git  
checkout raises a few questions concerning the current user interface.

My main source of confusion:  What could or should be the anchoring  
point for the different applications within Horde4?

If I look at our groupware bundle then I would say that the intial  
"Dashboard" or "Portal" should be provided by the "horde" base  
application and "horde" should also provide the framework that allows  
switching between applications and accessing generic functionality.

Right now both dynamic imp and kronolith seem to be able to provide  
the same anchoring functionality by displaying other apps in their  
viewport - at least concerning the static apps.

Both apps are unable to display each other in their viewport though  
and resort to a full switch of the application in case you select  
"Imp" from within "Kronolith" and vice versa. Do we really intend to  
allow both Imp and Kronolith to be "the" base application for a Horde  
installation?

With the capabilities of the "horde" application added to the mix it  
is currently easy to generate a setup that behaves totally weird when  
it comes to switching applications.

Do we already have a set of ideas on how to tackle this specific  
problem? Do we aim for a single app being the frame around all other  
apps?

Cheers,

Gunnar