Your major problem is (anti)anti-framebusting. I'm not sure that can ever be fixed. The solution is for a local desktop manager to have the same programability

Your major problem is (anti)anti-framebusting. I'm not sure that can ever be fixed. The solution is for a local desktop manager to have the same programability as a browser but separate the top level browser DOM from the local desktop DOM. Many of these FreeDesktop specs would already be usable: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications