Re: [gDesklets] Moonlight desklets

[Lauri Kainulainen <lauri sokkelo net>]

Christian Meyer wrote:
> have a look at this:
> http://idea.opensuse.org/content/ideas/implement-a-client-javascript-for-gtk-andor-moonlight

A very interesting read to start my morning with :). I still think (call 
me stubborn) that gDesklets with a dedicated renderer and a simple 
ADL-language+python can beat C# and XAML, but that's just my 2c.

However I'd like to point out a few concepts from moonlight desklets, 
screenlets, etc. that gDesklets should support (not high priority, just 
thoughts):

- A richer way to do animations. This is currently our shortfall. I'm 
not sure how hard it would be to have some kind of simple support using 
SVG. At least we should think of a very easy API for developers to use 
animations.

- Widget support and official theme support. This has been discussed 
earlier. Widgets and themes would make desklet development easier, would 
allow re-usable components and make the desklets look more unified. 
Basically the current ADL-elements can be thought of UI-widgets, but we 
would still benefit greatly if the widgets could be easily themed. I'm 
really not an expert since I haven't even used SideCandy or any of the 
other good theme-engines.

It would also be cool to provide support for 3rd party widgets. For 
instance some one could provide the good'ol TreeView as a widget that is 
created using python + ADL and others could use it simply by including 
it in their desklets.

We can already do all this, but I think we should come up with a de 
facto way so that people could collaborate easier.


Cheers,
lauri

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