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I'm fine with trying new things. In particular, I'm curious as to whether people have tried to build a desktop environment around webkit or similar--basically u

I'm fine with trying new things. In particular, I'm curious as to whether people have tried to build a desktop environment around webkit or similar--basically using the web stack instead of traditional GUI toolkits? Is there some obvious reason this is a bad idea (yeah, I know working in JS is unpleasant, but we have alternatives these days and frankly all of the native GUI toolkits for Linux are pretty unpleasant as well). EDIT: I know ChromeOS exists, but that's a lot more than a desktop environment (can't even run a compiler natively for all intents and purposes iirc).

rrgok 4y ago
That's a great question about using web tech to build a DE. I've been wondering the same for sometime. Someone should shed some light on this.
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Eeems 4y ago
So Gnome?
- throwaway894345 4y ago
  Could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure Gnome just embeds a JavaScript runtime (and probably not a particularly good one) as an embedded scripting language. It's not using a web engine (which would handle styling, layout, accessibility, etc in addition to running JS). https://gjs.guide/ https://gjs.guide/
dvdkon 4y ago
I think Deepin's DE used to be based on HTML years back, but they switched to Qt.