Re: [Ayatana] Unity: An interactive Mock up of GUI ideas

To: Apoorva Sharma <appi2012@xxxxxxxxx>

Subject: Re: [Ayatana] Unity: An interactive Mock up of GUI ideas

From: "frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx" <frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx>

Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 03:06:25 +0200

Cc: ayatana@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Sohail Mirza <mirzmaster@xxxxxxxxx>

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On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 23:05, Apoorva Sharma <appi2012@xxxxxxxxx> 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 anative 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.

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