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[Michael Jonker <citizen.jonker@xxxxxxxxx>]

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.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Aha..
> 
> 
> 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 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. 
>         
>         
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