FyneDesk, a fresh look at what it means to be a desktop environment

Post by criddell » Thu, Sep 30, 2021, 9:34 PM UTC

bklaasen wrote: post #42

criddell wrote: post #14

I've always felt that OS/2's Workplace Shell was a lost opportunity. Other than NextStep, are there other desktop environments that can do similar things?

Have you seen SerenityOS? https://serenityos.org/ "A graphical Unix-like operating system for desktop computers! SerenityOS is a love letter to '90s user interfaces with a custom Unix-like core. It flatters with sincerity by stealing beautiful ideas from various other systems. Roughly speaking, the goal is a marriage between the aesthetic of late-1990s productivity software and the power-user accessibility of late-20…

Post by andydotxyz » Thu, Sep 30, 2021, 9:41 PM UTC

Mikeb85 wrote: post #25

gizdan wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"It's shit" is not constructive feedback. As the parent commenter said, this is a relatively UI toolkit, and this desktop environment implementation is even younger. It takes time and effort to tweak things and there's no need to be hostile to new efforts. Especially when you consider that Qt, Windows, GNOME etc all have had years and years to tweak their design, and have also been redesigned.

I didn't say it's shit. The underlying technology is probably pretty nice, the fact it's done in Go and multi-platform is nice. But they need to take some styling inspiration from, well, 2021. Even their icons on their website look old. That's a deal breaker for many. Why would you choose this over say, Flutter, when Flutter is also cross-platform and there's an obvious way to style Flutter apps? There's examples of…

Post by andydotxyz » Thu, Sep 30, 2021, 9:43 PM UTC

arwineap wrote: post #21

Mikeb85 wrote: post #8

Points for being a cross-platform Go-based UI toolkit. But as a desktop environment, the design is far behind Apple, Gnome-shell, MS, even KDE.

Be the change you wish to see in the world. AFAIK, fyne is primarily a one man operation; I'm sure andrew would appreciate the help

Post by Minor49er » Thu, Sep 30, 2021, 9:47 PM UTC

andydotxyz wrote: post #46

Minor49er wrote: post #12

I hate to be that guy, but the first caption under the Themes section should read: "The standard theme in its dark look." Having the apostrophe in "its" makes it read "in it is dark look"

Thanks, fixed :)

Post by andydotxyz » Thu, Sep 30, 2021, 9:50 PM UTC

ModernMech wrote: post #32

This looks like a neat and worthwhile project, but it could do without the hyped marketing. You sold me with "reimagined desktop" and then gave me a screenshot of what looks to be a pretty typical, conventional desktop operating system. That's not a bad thing, but it's just not the reimagining I was sold on. Bit of a letdown for an otherwise interesting project!