Re: supporting all X (not only gtk+) applications in browser

[aix64 <hossein aix64 gmail com>]

On 01/09/13 00:21, Yuhao Zhu wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am not sure if this is the right place to post this.  But I saw this
> post
> (https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2010-November/msg00103.html)
> in this mailing list.  It is about rendering gtk+ applications in firefox.
>
> I think it is a good idea to run desktop applications in web browsers,
> which basically acts as a container.  The caveats of the Chrome OS is
> that users can't use real full version of all sorts of fancy software,
> but have to suffer the trimmed online version.  Imagine we can really
> have a "Browser OS" where the browser is the only software, which could
> do conventional browsing, as well as (remotely) run desktop applications.
>
> That patch in gtk+ sorts of does this, but as per my understanding
> (please correct me if wrong), it transfers pure pictures/pixels, and
> only deals with gtk+ applications.  However, why can't we just intercept
> the communication between X clients and servers, and render in the
> browser.  All we have to do is to ask X server to render the client in
> the browser tab (probably in a canvas) instead of as a standalone
> application.  In this way, we don't have to transfer pictures -- we are
> just re-routing the X rendering to the browser.  Supporting Wayland is
> also possible, and probably better.
>
> Imagine that we can host all sorts of fancy desktop software in central
> servers in the cloud, and users just have to open the browser, get
> access to remote server, and they can use them!  In this way, all data
> is stored on the cloud, rather than constantly synch-ing with the server!
>
>
>
> Yuhao
>
>
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Yes, great idea but I'd advice you to google strongly first, since you 
can find this in GTK+3 documentation:

"Using GTK+ with HTML5

The GDK Broadway backend provides support for displaying GTK+ 
applications using HTML5 and Web sockets. To run your application in 
this way, select the Broadway backend by setting GDK_BACKEND=broadway. 
Then you can make your application appear in a web browser by pointing 
it at http://127.0.0.1:8080. Note that you need to enable web sockets in 
your web browser."