On Wednesday, January 22, 2014 2:41:17 PM UTC-5, Kevin Ingwersen wrote: > > This thing, is AWESOME :D > > I used to enjoy eyeOS…but now it has turned into, what i call it, > „Businessware“. It used to be a nice open source thing, but now thanks to > th virtualization and the like, it has grown into…something far away from > consumers, as i feel it. >
I haven't seen anything in "the wild" that approaches this. And for me, anything not in "the wild" just doesn't even exist. > This here however, is much more different, but an aproach that I like: A > simple desktop, with a simple UI. Okay - its very Mac-ish, but I like that > honestly. > I Haha, it is meant to be a shameless clone of the OS X GUI. Before I put that Chrome-with-a-bite-mark logo in the top left, I actually had the Apple logo. > My favorite is the terminal, that actually knows ^c :) And since it knows > that, let me guess it uses something like termlib or termjs? - Because > then, i guess it could run things like ssh or top too. Very cool! > > I made a conscious decision to not really use any kind of frameworks or huge libraries. I developed my own <canvas> based implementation of Linux/Unix/*nix libcurses in pure JS, from the ground up. Trying doing: $ sleep 5000; echo blah blah blah ... and then hit ctrl+c after a couple seconds to verify that it really works. (The number represents milliseconds to sleep.) > At least I am totally interested in that, as it would make teamworking > much easier - instead of needing to „abuse“ github repos o-o; > > But one question: How did you make this well done OS X menu bar? I didnt > check the page source yet, but it is well done. Ahh, I knew I would have to sit down and take as much time as necessary in order to get that right. You can check out magnification by clicking on the desktop and going to System->Settings, and then clicking the "Dock" tab. Try moving icons from the Applications folder onto the Dock. Make the dock really small, and the maginification level really big in order to see something cool! > Just that the menu doesnt close if you click te title again. Not sure quite what you mean, but I can assure you this thing is FAR from being bug-free :) > But other than that - great :) > Cool... thx for the feedback! > Am Mi. Jan. 22 2014 14:28:16 schrieb Dennis Kane: > > > > It has been kind of an obsession for me to create the kind of end-user > experience that will really allow node to start actually being put to use. > I've spent pretty much an entire year of full time coding getting this > thing ready for prime time. The only caveat is that you need a Chrome > browser, as it crucially depends on the filesystem API. I won't get into > the details of how to user it. For now, just go there and start clicking > around. As people show interest, I'll start giving instructions. > > > > Where is "there"? > > > > HERE --> http://urdesk.net > > > > urdesk means: "yoUR DESK" and "Uniform Resource DESK". > > > > -- > > > > -- -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
