[dev] Dashboard and anchoring the apps in Horde4

[Michael Rubinsky]

Quoting Gunnar Wrobel <p at rdus.de>:

> 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.

Yup. I agree, though this gets complicated when throwing the dynamic  
applications into the mix (as you get to below).

> 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?

I would say "it depends." :) If we can get far enough along with the  
UI redesign stuff we are looking at to get both applications to look  
more similar, then I would say yes. If not, and for some reason the  
apps need to retain enough of the current design to make them too  
dissimmilar, then we need to come up with some framework for embedding  
these in. I'm not really sure how that would work or look though,  
since each application has built in application navigation. Add to the  
mix that each of the existing dynamic apps are sponsored and the  
sponsoring companies need to be happy with the final result, well,  
this gets messy.

Bottom line for me is that I would love to strive for making each  
dynamic app's navigation interface as similar as possible. This would  
be benificial both from the users' and developers' perspectives.

--mike

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