[Foxgui-users]foXdesktop development

[Jochen R. <jo...@co...>]

Hi foxgui-users.

As you all maybe know, there is a project named foXdesktop, which aims
to create a fox-toolkit based desktop environment. 
I am new developer to this project and was quite busy last days to bring
the project to actual state.
It was a pain in the ass to port the core applications, which only
compiled with fox 0.99.167 or a similar old pre-1.0-version and gcc
2.95, to actual 1.3.20 an gcc 3.3 versions. But the work is done and the
applications are working, although they aren't completely tested and
there may be some bugs left. While updating, i have for example
rewritten parts of foXcommander, because Jeroens FXFile functionality
does the job more portable, than calling Linux system calls. Also some
of the ported code is, compared to the actual state of fox, a very lousy
implementation. I don't want to excuse for it, but rather tell you, that
the project is back.

Why telling you all this?
Advancing foXdesktop means a lot of work and possibly a complete rewrite
of the existing code. I will use all of my very limited free time to
work for the progress, but doing all alone will not bring much benefit.
As i remember right from the mailinglist archive, Jeroen was interested
in this project, also he may have no time to help developing. But i bet,
it's in his interest to get a fox based desktop running! 
So i want to invite all of you guys to the foXdesktop-devel list
(https://sourceforge.net/projects/foxdesktop/) to join the discussion,
if you are interested in this project.

I just have written a long mail summarizing the project state. If you
want to read, drop me an email, i can forward you the mail, or just look
at the project page and read it in the mail archive (there may be a
delay of some hours, as the sourceforge people are doing some new stuff
to enhance their services).

Feel invited ;-)

Jochen