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Re: Show HN: GodotOS – Fake operating system interface made in the Godot engine

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Post by nucleogenesis »

jadtl wrote: post #57
Gormo wrote: post #51

This is actually a great proof of concept for using Godot as a cross-platform framework for desktop applications. The distribution package is incredibly simple -- just a single executable and a data file -- and performance is excellent. This seems much superior to Flatpak and the like as a way to offer fully self-contained distro-agnostic binary packages, and vastly superior to Electron in the performance department.…

I was trying to think of arguments against it, so I thought about the fact immediate mode GUIs might not always be suitable, before I stumbled upon this post: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47444189/what-are-the-pe... The only other downside I can think about is from a design standpoint, the application has to have the same design language across platforms, so it cannot have a native look for each. Any other con…

I’ve been thinking about this a bit and the main concern I’ve had is around accessibility. The web has had a lot of iteration over time to make it relatively easy to build applications that are well suited for use with screen readers and other assistive technologies. Have you done any testing along those lines with the Godot UI tools?

Re: Show HN: GodotOS – Fake operating system interface made in the Godot engine

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Post by z3phyr »

popcar2 wrote: post #5
cl3misch wrote: post #3

From the screenshot: > GodotOS is a fake operating system Is it fake, though? Does the term "operating system" imply the level of hardware it's running on? Otherwise, even if it's running on top of another OS, it's still an OS.

It's a fake OS in the sense that it's actually an application, not something that can be ran as an operating system like Linux or Windows. I've been a bit careful with my wording when advertising this, I wouldn't want to give the wrong impression.

Is Pharo/SmallTalk/Interlisp a fake OS?

Re: Show HN: GodotOS – Fake operating system interface made in the Godot engine

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Post by ziddoap »

dogtimeimmortal wrote: post #80

Dang! I just realized github no longer works on my old macbook running firefox 78.15.0esr (64-bit). BigTech wants me to buy a new macbook or switch to chrome. Edit: it's actually no laughing matter. I'm pretty devastated. :-(

The current FireFox ESR version is 115.6.0. Extended support for 78.15 ended in 2021.

It's weird that your first inclination is a new computer or chrome. Those are two very different things, and neither is necessary.

Re: Show HN: GodotOS – Fake operating system interface made in the Godot engine

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Post by jarboot »

I've been thinking about making a cross-platform mobile app but don't want to think about react native, touch javascript, or fiddle with xcode any more than I have to.

Is it accurate to think that I could instead use godot to create a cross-platform app to eliminate complexity from react native while creating something that is performant/native across ios/android?

Re: Show HN: GodotOS – Fake operating system interface made in the Godot engine

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Post by gumballindie »

arminiusreturns wrote: post #68
gumballindie wrote: post #12

Just the other day I was wondering - what would it take to develop a Linux WM in Godot?

Not that much actually if you don't mean as a full WM/DE replacement and instead as an on top layer; Godot 4.2 window management on linux is working quite smoothly for me, including multi-window support. From there what you do within the windows is where the magic happens. (see my other post)

What I mean is a full WM/DE replacement. I mean godot already handles graphics quite nicely. Imagine a desktop that you can control with shaders and runs on Vulkan. That'd be pretty neat.

Re: Show HN: GodotOS – Fake operating system interface made in the Godot engine

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Post by zengid »

Gormo wrote: post #51

This is actually a great proof of concept for using Godot as a cross-platform framework for desktop applications. The distribution package is incredibly simple -- just a single executable and a data file -- and performance is excellent. This seems much superior to Flatpak and the like as a way to offer fully self-contained distro-agnostic binary packages, and vastly superior to Electron in the performance department.…

If you're making a certain class of desktop app (CAD, DAWs, Video Editor) this is worth exploring!

Re: Show HN: GodotOS – Fake operating system interface made in the Godot engine

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Post by Gormo »

ladberg wrote: post #58
Gormo wrote: post #51

This is actually a great proof of concept for using Godot as a cross-platform framework for desktop applications. The distribution package is incredibly simple -- just a single executable and a data file -- and performance is excellent. This seems much superior to Flatpak and the like as a way to offer fully self-contained distro-agnostic binary packages, and vastly superior to Electron in the performance department.…

This would be sooo much worse from a UI point of view. All nice OS features (good text rendering, uniform text editing interface, accessibility, transparency) would all get chucked out the window. I also don't think Godot is inherently more performant for any random UI than Electron is. It happens that most Godot apps are performant because they're made by the type of people who want to use videogame engines and thus…

> This would be sooo much worse from a UI point of view. All nice OS features (good text rendering, uniform text editing interface, accessibility, transparency) would all get chucked out the window.

This is what is already happening with people using sandboxed-runtime containers (like Flatpak) and webapp wrappers (like Electron). Desktop UX is becoming a hodgepodge of siloed runtimes and inconsistent interface paradigms.

I don't think Godot would be a great alternative to developing a conventional desktop app, relying on the OS-provided runtime environment, but if you're already deviating away from that, it might still be much better than Flatpak or Electron.

> Electron can definitely have great performance when the developers care about performance (VSCode).

But most Electron applications do not have great performance because they're not being developed this way. Using Godot would provide an easy-to-learn frontend environment (with a scripting language that might even be simpler than using web-derived JS) while still providing the performance of a game engine under the hood. So non-Microsoft developers who would otherwise use Electron might still stand a chance of releasing decent software.

Re: Show HN: GodotOS – Fake operating system interface made in the Godot engine

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Post by Narishma »

jadtl wrote: post #57
Gormo wrote: post #51

This is actually a great proof of concept for using Godot as a cross-platform framework for desktop applications. The distribution package is incredibly simple -- just a single executable and a data file -- and performance is excellent. This seems much superior to Flatpak and the like as a way to offer fully self-contained distro-agnostic binary packages, and vastly superior to Electron in the performance department.…

I was trying to think of arguments against it, so I thought about the fact immediate mode GUIs might not always be suitable, before I stumbled upon this post: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47444189/what-are-the-pe... The only other downside I can think about is from a design standpoint, the application has to have the same design language across platforms, so it cannot have a native look for each. Any other con…

It requires a GPU.

Re: Show HN: GodotOS – Fake operating system interface made in the Godot engine

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Post by LSRegression »

Gormo wrote: post #51

This is actually a great proof of concept for using Godot as a cross-platform framework for desktop applications. The distribution package is incredibly simple -- just a single executable and a data file -- and performance is excellent. This seems much superior to Flatpak and the like as a way to offer fully self-contained distro-agnostic binary packages, and vastly superior to Electron in the performance department.…

It's already being used for that! I use a program called Dungeondraft[1] for easily creating maps for TTRPGS and it's built on top of Godot (see the modding API page[2] where they mention Godot).

[1]: https://dungeondraft.net/

[2]: https://megasploot.github.io/DungeondraftModdingAPI/

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