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Casey Ransberger-2

Window Manager?! (was Re: Fixing the Taskbar)

Germán: if you still have the machinery that you used to do this, could you share it? What you're describing is something I've wanted to try absolutely forever. I hate the context switch from host to Smalltalk. It seems far preferable to have the Smalltalk environment host the one application I don't have a Smalltalk implementation for (read: the web browser.)

With something like this, some care, and probably some optimization, we can approach something like a CuisOS. Stick a BSD under it. Wouldn't that be fabulous?

On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 3:15 PM, Germán Arduino <[hidden email]> wrote:

2014/1/1 Ken Dickey <[hidden email]>

On Wed, 1 Jan 2014 14:58:04 +0000
"H. Hirzel" <[hidden email]> wrote:

> The question is -- what else could the dashboard be used for?

Any kind of status/control which one wants to keep visible.

Current weather
Laptop battery charge status
Sound level
Media playback control
Network status/activity
eMail/IM arrival
CPU/Memory/Disk/.. capacity

I remember several years ago trying to use Squeak (I do not remember the exact version) as the window manager of LinEx (A Spanish Linux, from Extremadura government). It worked at a minimun, but still we needed applications to control the sort of stuf that Ken mention. Anyway, using OSProcess we were able to launch common Gnome apps.

We just have to write enough interesting things to show off. ;^)

Hehe, or go ahead with a sort of stuff as CuisNOS (imitating SqueakNOS) :)

-KenD

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Re: Window Manager?! (was Re: Fixing the Taskbar)

Thanks for like the idea :)

Was several years ago, in the context of the project Small-Land started by my friend Diego Gomez Deck when he was working in the Extremadura government.

Unfortunately all the material in the wiki (in such times hosted by an Argentinian university) was lost when the university suspended the host service (but the project was sort of abandoned time before still)

I should ask Diego if he have some backup of this material and also I should check my own old backups to see what I can found. But as I remember was not a very complex thing and was not working completely (I remember vaguely that one of the problems to solve was that the WM can't add the control buttons in the squeak windows (minimize, maximize, close).

And yes, I agree that having a sort of CuisOS would be a VERY interesting approach to lot of uses (embedded computing for example).

Cheers and happy new year to all the fellow in Cuis community and thanks for all the thing that I can learn each day from all of you!

2014/1/1 Casey Ransberger <[hidden email]>

Germán: if you still have the machinery that you used to do this, could you share it? What you're describing is something I've wanted to try absolutely forever. I hate the context switch from host to Smalltalk. It seems far preferable to have the Smalltalk environment host the one application I don't have a Smalltalk implementation for (read: the web browser.)

With something like this, some care, and probably some optimization, we can approach something like a CuisOS. Stick a BSD under it. Wouldn't that be fabulous?

On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 3:15 PM, Germán Arduino <[hidden email]> wrote:

2014/1/1 Ken Dickey <[hidden email]>

On Wed, 1 Jan 2014 14:58:04 +0000
"H. Hirzel" <[hidden email]> wrote:

> The question is -- what else could the dashboard be used for?

Any kind of status/control which one wants to keep visible.

Current weather
Laptop battery charge status
Sound level
Media playback control
Network status/activity
eMail/IM arrival
CPU/Memory/Disk/.. capacity

I remember several years ago trying to use Squeak (I do not remember the exact version) as the window manager of LinEx (A Spanish Linux, from Extremadura government). It worked at a minimun, but still we needed applications to control the sort of stuf that Ken mention. Anyway, using OSProcess we were able to launch common Gnome apps.

We just have to write enough interesting things to show off. ;^)

Hehe, or go ahead with a sort of stuff as CuisNOS (imitating SqueakNOS) :)

-KenD

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Saludos / Regards,
Germán Arduino
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