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DaedalOS: Desktop Environment in the Browser

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Re: DaedalOS: Desktop Environment in the Browser

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Super cool, although I would not use the Windows logo for the "Start" menu. Definitely change that and call it something else! I'd imagine Microsoft jealously defends that sort of thing.

It uses Windows design and icons for everything else, too. Would require a complete visual overhaul to divorce from MS.

Re: DaedalOS: Desktop Environment in the Browser

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Name seemed familiar. It’s a play on the name of a guy from Greek mythology. Daedalus.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daedalus

Father of Icarus. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icarus

> Icarus and Daedalus attempt to escape from Crete by means of wings that Daedalus constructed from feathers and wax. Daedalus warns Icarus first of complacency and then of hubris, instructing him to fly neither too low nor too high, lest the sea's dampness clog his wings or the sun's heat melt them. Icarus ignores Daedalus’s instructions not to fly too close to the sun, causing the wax in his wings to melt. He tumbles out of the sky, falls into the sea, and drowns. The myth gave rise to the idiom "don't fly too close to the sun".

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