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[Apoorva Sharma <appi2012@xxxxxxxxx>]

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.
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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
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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.