: Task-oriented desktop and applications?
I wanted to add a comment to Allan's blog post The next big thing, but too late! comments are already closed (side note, I think it's a general problem on blogs.gnome.org or it's a WordPress issue, or both).
So, at Flock 2014, Langdon White talked about “Fedora for Developers” (video), with the following idea, among other things: Desktop integration with “tasks” (with saved state).
It reminded me about a discussion that I had with gedit developers back in 2011. We talked about profiles: being able to create different gedit profiles, for example one for the C language and one for Vala. Different gedit instances could be launched with different profiles. They would behave as independent apps, with different settings, different plugins activated, a different UI state, and so on. Of course a profile could be created for each programming project, or… task.
But a task often involves launching several applications. So to resume a complete task quickly, in one step, it either needs some desktop integration, or another “hub” application could be responsible to create tasks and resume them. But either way it needs coordination with applications.
Edit: update links (in 2026).