http://live.gnome.org/SeedKit
Seedkit
Define your UI in web-standards, use your GObjects
The community, libraries, authoring tools and advanced graphical features of web standards makes them a compelling UI declaration solution.
With SeedKit, even local native Gnome applications can present a graphically-rich experience using those technologies.
Hopefully, it will be rendered obsolete when webkit-gtk implements such facility. The JavaScript API wont be affected by such a change.
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What ?
SeedKitView is a WebKitView augmented with selected Seed-provided GObjects. The JavaScript code might manipulate both the DOM and lower-level services.
The declarative nature of the approach minimizes or eliminates side effects by abstracting the developer away from complexities and enforce clear segmentation.
Whether using the Web Inspector or your favorite editor, modern graphical features of WebKit such as animations, transitions and dynamic layout are available to toy with.
Security-wise, seedkit always disallows remote access for the Seed-augmented Javascript context. Web page that wants to integrate with the desktop must provide some code installed the user executed in a separate context.
To be remotely comparable feature-wise to standard widgets toolkits, SeedKit will settle on a blessed JavaScript library. Using its idioms, usability and styling enforcement, and services bindings will be provided.
For Web developers, Designers, Idea boxes
seedkit-viewer runs applications whose both UI and logic are built using HTML/CSS and JavaScript. There, selected desktop and system services can be made available. Running and packaging those hybrid applications is made easy by distribution packages and .desktop file generation.
As an existing application developer
- Your existing application might benefit from some UI refreshment and more design-oriented contributors.
Embed a SeedKitView somewhere, give selective access to some application logic and data. And voilà.
As a Website developer
