From: Alan S. <ala...@po...> - 2003-07-27 22:41:46
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Hi, I found something interesting in the blog of Brad Wardell, about their development of Desktop X 2 (it's for windows XP, but there probably are some ideas that could used in enlightenment): http://www.joeuser.com/Articles/FunwithObjects.html The video (in wmv format, readable with mplayer) is pretty cool. I just thought you might enjoy it ... Alan Schmitt -- The hacker: someone who figured things out and made something cool happen. |
From: Carsten H. (T. R. <ra...@ra...> - 2003-07-27 23:15:12
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On Sun, 27 Jul 2003 18:40:18 -0400 Alan Schmitt <ala...@po...> babbled: > Hi, > > I found something interesting in the blog of Brad Wardell, about their > development of Desktop X 2 (it's for windows XP, but there probably are > some ideas that could used in enlightenment): > http://www.joeuser.com/Articles/FunwithObjects.html > The video (in wmv format, readable with mplayer) is pretty cool. > > I just thought you might enjoy it ... > > Alan Schmitt Yup. I've known about DestopX for quite a while (about 2 years). I even tried running it on XP & win2k a while back too - had it going. was a bit of a paint & wasn't that slickly done, but it did work. Have I mentioned the "desktop canvas" yet? Those on #edevelop or on the mailing lists or even on e may have heard me mumble about a "remote canvas" or also a "Desktop canvas". basically is a single Evas canvas for the desktop thats able to be used by multiple client programs via IPC. why do you think I had a strong motivation to put IPC into Ecore? it's there now :) The only question in my mind is, at what level to put the IPC and how much should be allowed and how much should be imposed by desktop canvas policy... all of these are still questions, BUT in development for E17 all these "building blocks" have been built to make such a thing easily possible, with all the hard work done for the programmer by libraries. NB: anyone see the WMV? soft dropshadows behind windows? seen http://www.rasterman.com/files/dropshad.png ? i did do a hack where i had a quickly hacked together desktop canvas (not remotely accessible - just controleld by 1 process) and i had dropshadows working dynamically... so never mind about DesktopX - we're paying attention here :) Anyway - stay tuned I guess. :) -- --------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) ra...@ra... 熊耳 - 車君 ra...@de... Mobile Phone: +61 (0)413 451 899 Home Phone: 02 9698 8615 |
From: Alan S. <ala...@po...> - 2003-07-28 12:06:56
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* Carsten Haitzler (ra...@ra...) wrote: > > NB: anyone see the WMV? soft dropshadows behind windows? seen > http://www.rasterman.com/files/dropshad.png ? i did do a hack where i had a > quickly hacked together desktop canvas (not remotely accessible - just > controleld by 1 process) and i had dropshadows working dynamically... so > never mind about DesktopX - we're paying attention here :) > > Anyway - stay tuned I guess. :) That's what I was secretly hoping to hear ;-) Thanks again for all the time you and the other developers are putting into this. Alan Schmitt -- The hacker: someone who figured things out and made something cool happen. |