swat/desktop

[Deryck Hodge]

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Tim Potter wrote:
| On Sat, 2005-08-20 at 16:43 +1000, tridge at samba.org wrote:
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|>Anyone else have any comments on this? How important is it to keep
|>SWAT 'web-like'? Or should we fully embrace the new age of 'desktop
|>apps in a browser' ?
|
|
| Do we actually know what the people who actually use this want to do?
|
| I definitely suffer from the Samba Team disease of using neither Samba
| nor Windows so I'm hardly in a position to recommend going either way.
| (-:
|
| To put it another way, is the desktop app in a browser just another
| flavour of the month or does it provide something that is more usable to
| our users?
|

I'll have to be honest here and say that I don't really know what people
want from SWAT, even after having asked around. :-)

However, I do think this approach has more advantages than just the desktop
simulation -- it's more responsive and allows multiple operations without
the need for multiple pages.  The desktop look is just packaging, and that
could be a bit flavor of the month.  But the usefulness of these kinds of
asynchronous web apps is here to say, IMHO.

Cheers,
deryck
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