The document proposes using ideas from Docker to improve the desktop application experience. It describes AppIT, which allows users to search, pull, and run trusted applications packaged as Docker containers from repositories. AppIT integrates with Dropbox to retain application customizations across devices and hosts. It aims to provide security, isolation, portability while making containerized applications easy for users, laymen, and researchers to use.

1. Ronak Kogta
Sambuddha Basu
AppIT
git for Desktop Application Environment

2. Our goal is simple, we want to use ideas of docker to make
desktop experience better.
A Time machine for your application.
 Search trusted applications from appit repositories
 Tight dropbox integrations to retain app customizations, even if you
are on different hosts
 Usability: Click on app icons like you used to, but now they will run
on docker.
Our Hack

3.  Your customized software need no another re-
customizaiton.
 IDE Synchronization (Netbeans,Eclipse) along with your workdir
 Lot of pluggable batteries to the host
 No need to permanently install applications.
 An idea of minimalistic yet high functioning host.
 Gives certain security, isolation, portable guarantees.
 Make it easy for user, layman, and researchers
Our Hack Inspiration

4.  Can Contain any sort of application (be it single container
or multiple container)
 All your customizations and data should be with you, while
you launch an application. (Persistent State)
 Define what each container is capable of
 Resource Usage
 Security Profiles
 Capabilities
Application Containment

5.  Freedom to create your own customizations and push it
into docker hub.
 Download only signed & trusted applications to your
machine.
 Application meta-data synchronization with cloud storage
services like Dropbox
Application Distribution

6.  Can easily define interfaces to interact
 Network ports
 ssh tunneling
 vnc
 sharing Xwindow Socket
 Design
 pull,push,search for your application (powerful cli)
 creating launchers which makes using applications intuitive
 gui wrappers to make it look like a package manager *(not
implemented)
Usability

7. ./appit.py

8. ./appit.py search firefox

9. ./appit.py pull firefox #pull signed image and meta data

10. ./appit.py push firefox #push signed image and meta data

11. ./appit.py run firefox #LaunchedFirefoxFirstTime LauncherCreated

12. ./appit.py run firefox #LaunchedAgain ChangedHomePgLstTime