Next generation UI work?
So here I am today wandering around cordaroys.com, trying to scope out some new bean-bag chairs for the man-cave, and they have a set of addresses of local show-rooms I can go visit and inspect the product. So I select the text for the one nearest me, and right-click, and there's no "Copy as Google Task" or "Make Outlook Appt", or "Add Contact." Option. There is a "Call with Google Voice" option, because I've installed the Google Voice plugin in Chrome. And I think that's what pisses me off the most:
1. That I have to install all these plugins all the time for all my apps, and for the ones I don't have (Office, Outlook) they all behave differently.
2. That my plugins are inconsistent.
3. They're not unobtrusive.
I also want an ability to link windows of content together, sans their menus. I want to put web pages alongside work documents alongside RDP windows so they are grouped as a single structural entity. I can only ever work on one or two at a time, reading one, interacting with another - how do I make this workflow usable?
The Ubuntu folks have a project to remove menus from apps and move them to the system bar ala Apple Mac OSX. I think this is a good idea - it's obviously worked for the Mac folks for decades!