Re: Gnome-Shell and Javascript Canvas

["Jasper St. Pierre" <jstpierre mecheye net>]

SeedKit is for Seed. GNOME Shell uses gjs.

You can use introspection for WebKitGtk, though. You can try to use
ClutterGtk as well to get it integrated into the Shell UI, but to be
honest I'm not sure how well that would work.

On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 5:35 PM, alex diavatis
<alexis diavatis gmail com> wrote:
> Helo Joern,
> Thank you for showing me SeedKit, it seems nice.. Gnome team surprise me
> every time!!
> But I really want them to surprise me once, with their documentation :)
> Thanks again
> -alex
>
> On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 10:58 PM, Joern Konopka <cldx3000 googlemail com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hey Alex, you could also look into
>> SeedKit http://live.gnome.org/SeedKit which will give you a WebKit View for
>> the UI plus low-level access to system services.
>>
>> 2011/8/21 alex diavatis <alexis diavatis gmail com>
>>>
>>> :( Yes I had read that, I was hopping that they had support on canvas, it
>>> would be awesome...
>>> Would be actually really awesome if there was something like integrated
>>> browser...
>>> Anyway Jasper, as I read also your extension hacking good luck with that,
>>> looks nice.
>>> Thank you for info.
>>> - alex
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 9:26 PM, Jasper St. Pierre
>>> <jstpierre mecheye net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> The Shell is not based on HTML5, just JavaScript. There is, however,
>>>> St.DrawingArea which provides native access to cairo, the API of which
>>>> is extremely similar to <canvas>.
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 1:56 PM, alex diavatis
>>>> <alexis diavatis gmail com> wrote:
>>>> > Hello,
>>>> > I guess I ll make a dummy question here. I was hacking some shell
>>>> > extensions
>>>> > a bit, it is easy and you have done fantastic job, but it was not what
>>>> > I was
>>>> > looking for. I'm not interested making extensions to add *system*
>>>> > functionality to the Shell. On the contrary I'm very interested if I
>>>> > could
>>>> > use the <canvas> HTML element inside the Shell. I have some Apps (RSS
>>>> > readers, Shares and Bonds Finance Apps) that are made for Chromium.
>>>> > Everything is rendering inside the 2d context of canvas.
>>>> > Is it possible to make these apps run inside Shell? I know I may be
>>>> > dreaming
>>>> > to ask this, but imagine the possibilities to can run Javascript
>>>> > Canvas
>>>> > Applications inside Shell with access to the hardware.. Sick :)
>>>> >
>>>> > Anyway, I am waiting for an answer, even if I already know it :(
>>>> > - alex
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>>>> >
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>>   Jasper
>>>
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