Hey Anthony - but also, if you are interested in looking into your other suggestion "something like the QT Web Engine <http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtwebengine-index.html> with MIR" You could try out Mir as well, just check out https://developer.ubuntu.com/en/snappy/guides/mir-snaps/ The wiki talks through this, but in effect it provides a guide for using a Qt example app that you could easily fork and replace with your own client app snap. would love to hear your feedback. br,kg
On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 10:53 AM, Anthony Kolodzinski < [email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for the support, guys. > Also Mark, thanks for the intros. > > When this is figured out it will be a powerful tool for kiosk/medium size > connected device development. > > I will try all of this out shortly! > > On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 11:50 AM Marco Trevisan < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Anthony, >> >> Electron OS backend (brightray) doesn't support mir yet AFAIK, although >> if you want to use this framework you could use a simple X server in the >> mean time, and then move to mir once we get support for that (I expect >> this to be a quick update at that point). >> >> I've been playing a little with electron apps and snapcraft, and they >> can run pretty easily by using something like this [1]. However, right >> now it only works when installed in --devmode, but I guess we'll fix >> this soon. >> >> [1] https://code.launchpad.net/~3v1n0/+junk/electron-quick-start-snap >> >> Il 23/05/2016 10:33, Mark Shuttleworth ha scritto: >> > Hi Anthony >> > >> > You should be able to get first-class support for Electron as I know >> > there are a few Electron-based snaps in progress. >> > >> > I wanted to bring your mail thread into the new list >> > ([email protected]). >> > >> > I'm pretty sure your use case, a web-based kiosk style snap, is going to >> > be very common. So for now I would suggest that you work on a desktop >> > snap that works on plain old Ubuntu 16.04 desktop in --devmode while >> > other folks work out the kinks for non-X11 electron snaps. That wont >> > take long and then yours will fit right in :) >> > >> > Mark >> > >> > On 25/04/16 17:29, Anthony Kolodzinski wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> >> >> I am new to Snappy development, and have a question regarding an >> >> application I am developing. >> >> >> >> My requirement is to be able to run a minimal, single window GUI using >> >> HTML, CSS, Javascript, and to be able to run it natively using a >> framework >> >> like electron <http://electron.atom.io/>. >> >> >> >> My question is, should I attempt to build X and electron in a docker >> >> container, and hook that into my monitor, or use something like the QT >> Web >> >> Engine <http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtwebengine-index.html> with MIR. >> >> >> >> Secondly, I have searched around, but if anybody has any resources that >> >> provide examples on how to accomplish this it would be greatly >> appreciated. >> >> Thanks. >> >> > -- > Snapcraft mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/snapcraft > >
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