Kera Desktop: open-source, cross-platform, web-based desktop environment

Re:Kera Desktop: open-source, cross-platform, web-based desk... by francois_h on Friday June 09, 2023 @06:19PM (#36265009)

This is really cool. One day I’d like to see a JS based window manager running as the main window manager on a local machine. I’m not entirely sure how that would work. Imagine using a JS window manager instead of Windows explorer or MacOS’ finder or even replace KDE or Gnome.

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Re:Kera Desktop: open-source, cross-platform, web-based desk... by replete on Friday June 09, 2023 @07:04PM (#36265520)

I've been using obsidian for note taking recently and found myself writing all kinds of extended UI functionality just because I could do so easily with web technologies. Writing a bit of JS and CSS to make my primary operating system interface with exactly how I like would be pretty handy. Did the same thing with Firefox when I realized I could just write some css to make the UI more compact.

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Re:Kera Desktop: open-source, cross-platform, web-based desk... by rektide on Friday June 09, 2023 @11:32PM (#36267327)

Pyrodesktop & webOS are historic & contemporary examples, I albeit webOS isn't really a conventional window manager. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39541

I also cited Greenfield which is a web based Wayland window manager. Apps show up & run as normal in the browser. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29239781

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Re:Kera Desktop: open-source, cross-platform, web-based desk... by cookiengineer on Saturday June 10, 2023 @05:11AM (#36268926)

GNOME3 is already using GNOME Shell, which in return uses gjs and a CSS tree for all its components and layouts?

I mean, the GTK layout tree is obviously different than a pure CSS layout tree, but it's been there for already 14+ years...and everyone was complaining about it.

You can literally use animations and transitions from the CSS/SVG specification.

You also can use "Looking Glass" which is their integrated debugger for layouts.

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