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Re: DaedalOS: Desktop Environment in the Browser

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Post by carlesfe »

gjsman-1000 wrote: post #46

I wonder if someone will eventually make a desktop OS that is entirely web-based. No GTK or WinUI - everything is a web app. Except that the DE would also be, technically speaking, a web app itself that shows other web apps. Kind of like this, except imagine if the example apps ("File Explorer") were real web apps loading into the web app desktop environment. I think Firefox OS was the farthest that this got, but I t…

This was done in 2005 by eyeOS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EyeOS

Sadly, too advanced to its time, it was acquired but dismantled some time later.

Re: DaedalOS: Desktop Environment in the Browser

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Post by the_only_law »

gjsman-1000 wrote: post #46

I wonder if someone will eventually make a desktop OS that is entirely web-based. No GTK or WinUI - everything is a web app. Except that the DE would also be, technically speaking, a web app itself that shows other web apps. Kind of like this, except imagine if the example apps ("File Explorer") were real web apps loading into the web app desktop environment. I think Firefox OS was the farthest that this got, but I t…

Not the same as what you’re talking about, but I recall seeing this a few months back and found it pretty cool: https://github.com/udevbe/greenfield

Re: DaedalOS: Desktop Environment in the Browser

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Post by mysterydip »

pkhodiyar wrote: post #30
mysterydip wrote: post #18

I've always loved "desktop websites", but beyond novelty I haven't found a real use case. Maybe something like a thin client or "work anywhere" for a business?

Yes, there are use cases, I too loved 'web-desktops' so made a comprehensive github repo listing 171 such webDesktops that people made. Please have a look here, you will love it : https://github.com/zriyans/awesome-OS

This is an excellent list, thanks! I'll be spending a while going through it.

Re: DaedalOS: Desktop Environment in the Browser

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Post by lsferreira42 »

gjsman-1000 wrote: post #46

I wonder if someone will eventually make a desktop OS that is entirely web-based. No GTK or WinUI - everything is a web app. Except that the DE would also be, technically speaking, a web app itself that shows other web apps. Kind of like this, except imagine if the example apps ("File Explorer") were real web apps loading into the web app desktop environment. I think Firefox OS was the farthest that this got, but I t…

I don't really remember the name now, but gnome/gtk had a way to render the entire interface in a browser, if anyone can remember please let me know

Edit: it is the project the_only_law posted below

Re: DaedalOS: Desktop Environment in the Browser

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Post by srtjstjsj »

gjsman-1000 wrote: post #48
npteljes wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How far is ChromeOS / ChromiumOS from what you described?

Not there yet, because ChromeOS's user interface is not written as a web app. (Think close, minimize, maximize, window frame, taskbar, etc.) Same for it's native user interface (Settings menu). I'm thinking of a desktop environment where everything was truly web - there was no native toolkit.

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Re: DaedalOS: Desktop Environment in the Browser

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Post by Isthatablackgsd »

deepstack wrote: post #17

Appreciated what has being put into this effort. Quite slow on macbook pro with 16gb of ram. This makes me question the usability of React. Wouldn't something like this better written in something more lightweight such as Mithril or SolidJS, Vue, etc?

I have Macbook Air M1 8GB, it ran smoothly on my side. The highest CPU usage I seen from that is 30%. Doom and Nuke Dukem 3D is running smooth in there as well. And my NUC (i7 8559U) have a tiny input delay but overall ran smoothly on it. I use Vivaldi for my Macbook and Firefox for my NUC.

Re: DaedalOS: Desktop Environment in the Browser

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Post by [deleted] »

mushufasa wrote: post #42
archerx wrote: post #37

On my test computer which is an i7 m620 and no GPU it is very slow and takes the CPU to 100% on all cores while idle. opening a window will just get stuck at "working on it". While it looks nice this has probably been the slowest and least efficient web desktop I have opened on this computer and I have looked at a lot because I am building my own.

To be fair, that is a 12 year old processor, so many modern websites are probably hard

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