Jade: New Linux Desktop Built On Python, HTML5 & JavaScript

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Jade: New Linux Desktop Built On Python, HTML5 & JavaScript

The Jade Desktop Environment is a new effort from the Sparky Linux crew, a Debian derivative, at delivering a new Linux desktop option...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-Jade-Desktop-Environment

[om26er]

InB4 the shitstorm on how slow that will be.

[justmy2cents]

InB4 the shitstorm on how slow that will be.

Slow? Their choices clearly show they aim at HPC market

[starshipeleven]

Slow? Their choices clearly show they aim at HPC market

To be fair, I've seen websites or web applications far, far more complex than any DE run perfectly fine.

[PluMGMK]

Web-based desktop eh? Kinda like what Microsoft attempted with Win98, but without all that evil proprietary stuff, I guess…

[rene]

InB4 the shitstorm on how slow that will be.

yeah, it will be totally snappy, … as snappy on a Epyc 16-core as good old classic C/C++ stuff was on a 600 MHz Athlon ;-)

[rene]

To be fair, I've seen websites or web applications far, far more complex than any DE run perfectly fine.

To be fair most web 2.0 or so, HTML 5 canvas and what not sites run like crap on my dual-core 2.x GHz G5 w/ 9GB of RAM that loaded the whole web instantly just half a decade (five years) ago, … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NU1RK4TR-GA

[Candy]

1st thought: "Oh Hell"
2nd thought: "Visual Basic Programmers"

[starshipeleven]

To be fair most web 2.0 or so, HTML 5 canvas and what not sites run like crap on my dual-core 2.x GHz G5 w/ 9GB of RAM that loaded the whole web instantly just half a decade (five years) ago, … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NU1RK4TR-GA

I agree that most websites run like crap, I just said that you can make a snappy GUI with web-technologies too, if you aren't using WYSIWYG frameworks because you can't even fucking understand basic HTML code (yes I know many "webdevelopers").

These are good practices which can make a lot of difference if the developer isn't a "webdeveloper" but actually knows his shit:

https://developers.google.com/speed/docs/insights/rules

And also note that most lagging in a webpage is due to latency introduced by downloading stuff, on a local page you don't have that.

[Michael_S]

But Python (of course, unoptimized Python) with HTML and CSS for a desktop is slow and potentially bloated, and not a sh*t thing to say...

You don't know until you've run it. https://github.com/codesardine/Jadesktop and https://github.com/codesardine/Jade-Application-Kit on first glance it looks like the code only really use Python to launch the application window, not run any important event loops. So Python may not be a problem.

...but I don't care enough to take it for a spin. My eight year old desktop runs "heavyweight" GNOME 3, KDE Plasma, and Unity 7 flawlessly and instantly.