Existing Linux distros have support for themes and custom applets, which should allow some reasonable ricing, but:

• Themes don't allow changing much (Linux Mint doesn't even allow changing gap between panel's applets)
• Cinnamon Spices applets use GJS and are a mess. TypeScript integration is pratically only for Gnome, but it's a mess.

I've considered lots of technologies for native dev.; I won't even enumerate them. For now the closest tech to what I want is the web. Unfortunately there's nothing better. Rather, I want to know what can be expected of a desktop environment (display manager, window manager, apps) implemented using Webkit and interoperable Rust code... That's, Tauri.

As I asked to ChatGPT, it seems that Webkit's binary is loaded at most once in-memory and is called from Webkit-based apps. Is that right? If so, then it acts close to as if opening a Webkit-based app were like opening a new tab in the Webkit runtime, right?

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