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>>rbanff+(OP)
Wow, talk about being out of touch with the real world. Developers, especially Linux developers, really need to give up on this whole "Desktop" operating system idea. It's not going to work. It is already dead. And I can hardly believe we are still using these ancient systems for many tasks even today. There is no future in WIMP, and people really need to stop developing these Windows clones already. It was lame 10 years ago. If you are still working on desktop OS clones today, you so are terribly out of touch with the real world there really is no hope for you or your product. Get over it.

Touch-based (and by extension, NUI-based) OS'es and mobile applications are the future. Windows always sucked. Mac OS always sucked. Every desktop OS ever built sucked because it is a horrible way to use a computer. Nobody ever really wanted to use these terrible desktop metaphor systems... they only ever did because they had to.

>>dj2ste+j4
I think you're missing the context here. This system is not about UI. It's not about desktop experience either. It's about making sure your email client is so separated from your $BUSINESS_APPLICATION, that exploiting one does not allow you to access anything on the other - and doing that without relying on handcrafted libvirt configs and hopefully without much processing overhead.

I guess the desktop environment was just a random choice of "this works, so just leave it in" from whatever distribution they started with.

>>virapt+v4
That already exists: it's called a web browser.

Granted, browsers aren't without their security holes, but then again, neither are operating systems. Given the amount of effort being put into browsers to make them secure (especially Chrome), my money's on that.

>>ericho+25
Websites aren't sufficiently sandboxed from each other though. Otherwise we wouldn't have CSRF, XSS and Click Jacking attacks.

If you build a webmail client, you need to know all about these attack vectors, and you need to go out of your way to prevent your application from being susceptible to them. Websites are insecure by default.

I don't trust a web browser with my email at all. Not yet. If I were to use webmail, I'd make sure to set up a separate instance of Firefox to run it in, with it's own profile. I will continue to use Thunderbird for now though.

I'm not against the idea of using webmail, I just don't think the web is secure enough yet.