Minimal Kiosk App with Snappy

[Kevin Gunn]

Hey Anthony - but also, if you are interested in looking into your other
suggestion "something like the QT Web Engine
<http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtwebengine-index.html> with MIR"
You could try out Mir as well, just check out
https://developer.ubuntu.com/en/snappy/guides/mir-snaps/
The wiki talks through this, but in effect it provides a guide for using a
Qt example app that you could easily fork and replace with your own client
app snap.
would love to hear your feedback.
br,kg

On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 10:53 AM, Anthony Kolodzinski <
anthonykolodzinski at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the support, guys.
> Also Mark, thanks for the intros.
>
> When this is figured out it will be a powerful tool for kiosk/medium size
> connected device development.
>
> I will try all of this out shortly!
>
> On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 11:50 AM Marco Trevisan <
> marco.trevisan at canonical.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Anthony,
>>
>> Electron OS backend (brightray) doesn't support mir yet AFAIK, although
>> if you want to use this framework you could use a simple X server in the
>> mean time, and then move to mir once we get support for that (I expect
>> this to be a quick update at that point).
>>
>> I've been playing a little with electron apps and snapcraft, and they
>> can run pretty easily by using something like this [1]. However, right
>> now it only works when installed in --devmode, but I guess we'll fix
>> this soon.
>>
>> [1] https://code.launchpad.net/~3v1n0/+junk/electron-quick-start-snap
>>
>> Il 23/05/2016 10:33, Mark Shuttleworth ha scritto:
>> > Hi Anthony
>> >
>> > You should be able to get first-class support for Electron as I know
>> > there are a few Electron-based snaps in progress.
>> >
>> > I wanted to bring your mail thread into the new list
>> > (snapcraft at lists.ubuntu.com).
>> >
>> > I'm pretty sure your use case, a web-based kiosk style snap, is going to
>> > be very common. So for now I would suggest that you work on a desktop
>> > snap that works on plain old Ubuntu 16.04 desktop in --devmode while
>> > other folks work out the kinks for non-X11 electron snaps. That wont
>> > take long and then yours will fit right in :)
>> >
>> > Mark
>> >
>> > On 25/04/16 17:29, Anthony Kolodzinski wrote:
>> >> Hi all,
>> >>
>> >> I am new to Snappy development, and have a question regarding an
>> >> application I am developing.
>> >>
>> >> My requirement is to be able to run a minimal, single window GUI using
>> >> HTML, CSS, Javascript, and to be able to run it natively using a
>> framework
>> >> like electron <http://electron.atom.io/>.
>> >>
>> >> My question is, should I attempt to build X and electron in a docker
>> >> container, and hook that into my monitor, or use something like the QT
>> Web
>> >> Engine <http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtwebengine-index.html> with MIR.
>> >>
>> >> Secondly, I have searched around, but if anybody has any resources that
>> >> provide examples on how to accomplish this it would be greatly
>> appreciated.
>> >> Thanks.
>>
>>
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