Re: [w3ctag/design-reviews] Window Controls Overlay for Installed Desktop Web Apps (#481)

We have to bear in mind that PWA is not a standard but just an experiment on what could be a desktop-like application feeling in browsers. Mozilla already dropped support for PWA for a reason. It has way too many limitations both for users and developers.

What developers and users really need for having the convenience of desktop applications built on top of browser technologies is not only a customizable frame, such as with a frameless media feature in CSS, but also a security model allowing to run arbitrary programs onto the desktop, such as spinning a local web server from the application UI frame.

Similar to "[Trusted Web Activity](https://blog.chromium.org/2019/02/introducing-trusted-web-activity-for.html)" into the browser, we would need a "Trusted Desktop Activity" security model, that would give permission to a website/webpage application to run a program onto the local machine, to access certain parts of the filesystem, to allow network requests, etc., a bit like Deno's [permissions-based security model](https://deno.land/manual/getting_started/permissions) is doing.

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