BTW, if you're really willing to do the work, when you prove it is feasible, maybe you could get some help from Microsoft ($$$?). They were trying to get distros involved in their Linux Subsystem. Don't know if they offered any money for it, though.
On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 11:25 AM Felipe Magno de Almeida <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 4:05 AM Vincent Torri <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 6:53 PM Jonathan Aquilina > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > That’s another way things could go but how would you interact and restyle > > > the windows windows lol > > > > like E does... > > > > If you are interested in the Windows port, then help me for the EFL :-) > > The Windows native applications are not going to talk to you. They > will just happily drawn themselves through Win32 API and GDI. > > However, I do like the idea of having Linux applications being managed > by E. Though I doubt the X11-way is a good idea. I think the only > viable, but which I'm not willing to help now, would be through > wayland. Because in Wayland, E already does almost everything anyway. > It may just CreateWindowEx with the correct sizes and draw on them. > Get Input from it through its Message Loop. Only problem is that all > GUI windows will be under the same PID. > > > Vincent > > Regards, > > > > Get Outlook for iOS<https://aka.ms/o0ukef> > > > > > > ________________________________ > > > From: Vincent Torri <[email protected]> > > > Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2019 10:48 > > > To: Enlightenment developer list > > > Subject: Re: [E-devel] Linux subsystem on windows > > > > > > On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 10:43 AM Felipe Magno de Almeida > > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 6:39 PM Vincent Torri <[email protected]> > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 10:33 AM Felipe Magno de Almeida > > > > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 6:12 PM Vincent Torri > > > > > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 10:06 AM Felipe Magno de Almeida > > > > > > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 5:40 PM Jonathan Aquilina > > > > > > > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I say why not. I am willing to work on it slowly slowly. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > My question becomes do we have any stats of enlightenement > > > > > > > > > usage by windows users? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Considering it is completely impossible to use enlightenment on > > > > > > > > Windows > > > > > > > > > > > > > > not impossible, but really difficult > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I would like to mention that in the late 90's, a Windows NT port > > > > > > > of E > > > > > > > 0.14 or 0.15 has been done, called e-sense (I have the sources > > > > > > > somewhere on my HD). It was using Litestep for the windows > > > > > > > management. > > > > > > > > > > > > I meant impossible now. I mentioned the possibility of porting > > > > > > Enlightenment > > > > > > wayland. I think it is probably easier than trying to use X11. > > > > > > However, you > > > > > > would end up with Enlightenment as an application with all > > > > > > applications > > > > > > inside. > > > > > > > > > > the current desktop shell of Windows is a fullscreen application with > > > > > all the applications inside > > > > > > > > Yes. But then Windows applications do not work the same way as > > > > Linux ones would. It would be fine for people only using Linux > > > > applications. Maybe we could have a wayland that actually creates > > > > normal CreateWindowsEx for their clients, but that is a lot of work. > > > > > > i was having another idea, which would make all the Windows > > > sapplications behave like the ones in a Unix WM : content is managed > > > by the application, decoration (title bar, etc ..) managed by E > > > > > > Vincent > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > enlightenment-devel mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > enlightenment-devel mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > enlightenment-devel mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel > > > > -- > Felipe Magno de Almeida -- Felipe Magno de Almeida _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
