The computer desktop environment, since its introduction in Xerox’s Star computer and popularization by Apple’s Macintosh computer [1], is the favorite general-purpose computer interface. The desktop provides graphical access to common utilities and important rudimentary tools for organizing the user’s work in windows. Linux distributions recognize the importance of the desktop and provide mult...

Over the last decade, personal desktops have faced the problem of information overload due to increasing computational power, easy access to the Web and cheap data storage. Moreover, an increasing number of diverse end-user desktop applications have led to the problem of information fragmentation. Each desktop application has its own data, unaware of related and relevant data in other applicati...