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Pyro: Fire up your desktop with web apps

July 24th, 2007

Tectonic.co.za wrote:

Pyro is a new type of desktop environment for Linux built on Mozilla Firefox. Its stated goal is “to enable true integration between the web and modern desktop computing”.

Operating through Firefox, Pyro merges the web with the desktop environment, allowing for web applications to run alongside your desktop applications.

Pyro provides all of its functionality as a web page displayed through Firefox. Working essentially as a window manager, it renders web content alongside native applications.

Some of the features:

* Rich Web pages running side-by-side with native applications

* Single programming environment for the whole desktop

* Desktop-wide mashups

* Web integration

* Novel desktop effects

Pyro leverages the Firefox Add-On system and makes available all the capabilities of dynamic HTML, JavaScript, CSS, SVG, and Adobe Flash to enable incredible applications, extensions and themes.

“Bringing all these web technologies together with the newest generation of Linux display technology, called window compositing, allows Pyro to integrate native applications as an intrinsic part of the overall Web Desktop, seamlessly merging the two,” states the Pyro website announcement.

As a version 0.1 release, this is still very much an alpha, and bugs are to be expected.

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