Hello,
Martin Grimme (of gDesklets fame) outlines on the
comp.gnome.desktop mailinglist on how to turn the
Linux Gnome Desktop into a next-gen browser using the
gDesklets XML UI language and the Python scripting
language.
Tim Peoples writes:
I've had an idea bouncing around in my head for a
few months now. Somewhat of a marriage of glade (the
xml format), javascript, Gtk+/Gnome bindings and some
sort of web service protocol (xml-rpc or maybe
soap/wsdl) into something I have initially called
"Gnomescript". While I only have a cursory
understanding of DBUS, it definately looks like it
fits in quite nicely.
Martin Grimme responds:
This sounds like a great idea and I actually want to
push gDesklets into that direction within the next few
months. We aleady have a lightweight XML format for
user interfaces (currently we only cover things like
labels and images but standard widgets may be added).
Inline scripting (i.e. the marriage of XML with Python
scripts) will be added in the 0.30 release. We focus
on Python as the scripting language but other inline
scripting languages may easily be added by
implementing interpreter functions (which are usually
C code).
I consider the Glade XML format not being appropriate
for your idea, because Glade XML turns out to be not
very human-readable, IMHO.
...
Tim Peoples writes:
Originally, my idea was leaning more towards "remote
applications" somewhat like Mozilla's XUL but much
more Gnome specific... but soon expanded that to
something more akin to VB on Windows (but without all
the ugly baggage the VB carries) ...
Martin Grimme responds:
Remote desklets can be executed wherever a gDesklets
interpreter is installed. This already works and you
could e.g. execute .display files that are on some
http:// location or any other GNOME VFS accessible
location.
Full story @
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.desktop/16251
- Gerald
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