That sounds very interesting. It would be great if the UI development could be accessible to a wider community with a more graphical focus.
Also, this sounds more flexible to issues such as switching from landscape to portrait as the apps could be doing their needed reshuffle in a common language. On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 03:06 +0200, frederik.nn...@gmail.com wrote: > Aha.. > > > On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 23:05, Apoorva Sharma <appi2...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > I agree with the fact that unity doesn't use space efficiently > by presenting the user with a black desktop, and as a > solution, I proposed a widget layer instead of a traditional > desktop. For such a layer, > > > > an HTML/CSS/JS UI layer would be nice. > > > > > > And luckily, this already exists! See GNOME Seedkit: > http://live.gnome.org/SeedKit > > From its announcement here: > > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/2010-August/msg00065.html, > > > With SeedKit, a developer can choose to define the > user interface of a native application in pure web > standard technologies (HTML/CSS/ Javascript). > > > This would provide just the layer you are talking about, and > it could potentially be used as a platform for a widget layer > for unity. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana > Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana > Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
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