>>>Not MY desktop, and even at best of times they controlled perhaps a third of it. Now they are down to a miserable two cores, 3G and 180G of disk, no sound, no video, no USB, no email... just FTP and a share on the host disk. No visits either, just clipboard synchronization.
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>LOL. Meanwhile we're about to release a new Windows desktop app- which makes sense because browsers keep changing and native apps are easily deployed and blazingly quick. Craig Berntson observed a while back that some apps are for desktop and always will be: he's right, and with even Linux desktop poster child Munich reverting to Windows, we might as well accept that desktop app = Windows app.
At a certain level of complexity, you simply can't have enough screen space on anything but big monitor, simple as that. Popping up widgets on as-needed basis may cover a lot of mileage, but at a certain point it becomes unwieldy and you spend more time navigating between the tools than actually using it.
You made me think of the apps I use every day (email, browser, music player) and the apps I use frequently (photo editing, text editor, office stuff) and for most of it I don't see much difference between what I was using last year and now. Because for the most part it's the same apps :). Same browser, same email, same LibreOffice, same Gimp. For music player the choice was tough, I went through about six of them until I was satisfied. Gimp and Libre, however, load much faster and work smoother on the same hardware (except Scalc takes forever to refresh on each step when resizing). The real indispensable desktop app is, however, RawTherapee which I use for extracting jpg from raw format photos. It is so much more powerful (in some ways, and lacking in some others) than what I was using on W7 and above all it just does what it was made for, doesn't even try to create any catalog and doesn't keep a ton of binaries in hidden folders - everything is in simple text files. And of course I run it fullscreen, 1920x1200. I can't imagine doing that on a laptop, not to mention a tablet.
