search

elkowar / eww

ElKowars wacky widgets
https://elkowar.github.io/eww
MIT License
9.36k stars 382 forks source link

Possibillity of displaying a portion of a web view in a panel? #772

Open MostHated opened 1 year ago

MostHated commented 1 year ago

Description of the requested feature

Hey there, I was wondering if there was any sort of current mechanism that would allow the display of a portion of a web page as a small panel? I run a local Uptime Kumah instance, and I have been trying to come up with a decent way to display the uptime sidebar without having to parse all the data and recreate it. The easiest way would be to just display that particular portion of the page in a static panel, but not sure if that is doable? I suppose, if nothing else, I could periodically capture that portion as an image and just have it refresh every few seconds, but that doesn't sound ideal.

Any ideas or suggestions would be appreciated! Thanks, -MH

Proposed configuration syntax

No response

Additional context

No response

SpomJ commented 1 year ago

I think you might already know but imo this is unlikely to happen.This obviously requires some kind of web rendering engine running in background and then passing output to the window. So what you really want is the ability to launch windows inside an eww wrapper, basically making eww a compositor.

Could be done in some of wms tho with some amounts of tinkering.

MostHated commented 1 year ago

I ended up having to wipe my pop_os install and put ubuntu on as Unity would not give me software support (which didn't even help the issue I was having ).

I figured this is as good time as any to start fresh. I was using Conky for most of my stuff prior, with eww being used for just some top bar stats, but I think I will go full eww this time around and just grab the data from the API and create a list widget for this particular thing. Probably easier, and more performant anyways to just do that.

RegenJacob commented 1 year ago

I Would guess that it could be possible with webkit2gtk as eww itself uses gtk but I doubt that this will ever be implemented (new big dependency and probably not very performant)