In a dev branch of beaker, I've been playing around with something similar the "Modal Page Actions" idea with a "context bar." It has actions based on what the

In a dev branch of beaker, I've been playing around with something similar the "Modal Page Actions" idea with a "context bar." It has actions based on what the browser recognizes about the site (stuff like "follow this site" or "view profile" or "10 comments"). I'd like to have a whole contextual sideview as well, because I'd like to render trusted interfaces for the given page, but it's a little tricky to decide when to take real-estate in the shell. Some people liked it in a demo, and some felt like it's an intrusion. The trick is, if you make it a toggle then you can't rely on the interface being there so it's hard to use for critical functions, which makes me think it shouldn't be a priority yet. We'll see about the context bar. The "My Homepage" concept will be in the next release. Seems like a good idea.