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Re:Ask HN: Javascript for desktop apps? by makmanalp on Monday July 27, 2009 @06:21AM (#725651)
The KDE desktop shell, Plasma, has js bindings so you can develop plasmoids (applets) with javascript.

http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials/Plasma/JavaScr...

Re:Ask HN: Javascript for desktop apps? by makmanalp on Monday July 27, 2009 @06:33AM (#725657)
Sorry, forgot: This stuff is quite new so you might find some stuff missing from the bindings, but it's growing speedily. For the curious, it uses QScript.