andreasgal/gaia — Issue #40: Implement a simple "app/task manager"
Author: cgjones
Created: 2011-11-15 02:10:41+00:00
State: open

(assigned to @justindarc. Adding you as a collaborator soon.)

The app manager will want to use something like the enumerate API being worked on in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=697383 to show installed apps, and then use the WindowManager built into the home screen. It's probably easiest to build the task manager into the home screen for now. Some things that would be nice to have for a first version
- display all installed apps
- display all running apps (would be nice to expose CPU/memory/etc., needs platform support though)
- allow "killing" a running app (destroy its iframe)
- maybe implement an Expose-like feature for switching between running apps, instead of having to back through the home screen