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Re: [Ayatana] Unity: An interactive Mock up of GUI ideas
- To: Sohail Mirza <mirzmaster@xxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: [Ayatana] Unity: An interactive Mock up of GUI ideas
- From: Apoorva Sharma <appi2012@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 16:05:31 -0500
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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.