Re: libseed-list GSoC 2010 Ideas

[Tim Horton <hortont424 gmail com>]

On 2010.04.05, at 9:33 PM, Brian McKenna wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> 
> I'm just sending in a few ideas I have for Google Summer of Code. I'd
> really appreciate any feedback!
> 
> My first idea is a jQuery-like library. The library would provide
> wrappers around Gnome libraries (such as GTK, GLib/Gio, Clutter) and
> make it very simple to use CSS like selectors, make AJAX-like
> requests, get values of GTK widgets, do simple animations (fade and
> property tweening), etc. The purpose is to just make it extremely
> simple for web developers to make Gnome-based applications.

I'm not totally clear what this would look like, but it sounds possibly interesting.

> My second idea is to provide the HTML5 API in Seed. It'd be nice to be
> able to use Canvas, WebGL, Local Storage, Web Sockets, Drag and Drop,
> Web Workers and Web Media (the video and audio element API). The
> purpose for this is similar to the first idea - I want to make desktop
> development familiar to web developers.
> 
> Johan Dahlin has done a little bit of work on this front by
> implementing Canvas for GJS:
> 
> http://blogs.gnome.org/johan/2010/03/30/bridging-the-development-gap-between-desktop-and-web/

Seed's had canvas semi-implemented for a while:

http://git.gnome.org/browse/seed/tree/modules/canvas/seed-canvas.c

http://git.gnome.org/browse/seed/tree/modules/canvas/run-tests.js

The others would be interesting, too... though I think at least *part* of the idea with Seed was to have very little platform of its own, providing a simple scripting language that *just* wraps the GNOME platform.

That's not to say it's a poor idea, but it's definitely something that the various people using Seed now should discuss and try to come to a consensus on, since Robb and I don't have a particular roadmap at this point (obviously).

> What do you think? What are the chances of these projects being
> chosen? Would this project or Summer of Code be more suited to GJS?
> 
> Thanks for your help,
> Brian McKenna
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