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SymphonyOS – Light, Friendly, and Useful

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Re: SymphonyOS – Light, Friendly, and Useful

#4

Post by agumonkey »

mixmax wrote: post #2

It's a little light on details. Is this related to the symphony framework in any way, or is it just a naming coincidence?

Name collision I believe, there's a russian language demo on youtube. It seems to me as a tiny fltk based WM to fit the current UX trends without having a "heavy" DE like Gnome3.

Re: SymphonyOS – Light, Friendly, and Useful

#5

Post by mikegioia »

I'm downloading it to try in a VM, but this website has almost 0 information on it. Where are the screenshots? FAQ? Where is any information about what this is or why I should use it?

The amount of time it would take to add this info must be a pittance compared to the dev hours they put into the OS!

Re: SymphonyOS – Light, Friendly, and Useful

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Post by pidg »

mikegioia wrote: post #5

I'm downloading it to try in a VM, but this website has almost 0 information on it. Where are the screenshots? FAQ? Where is any information about what this is or why I should use it? The amount of time it would take to add this info must be a pittance compared to the dev hours they put into the OS!

There's a little more in the wiki entry for Mezzo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mezzo_%28desktop_environment%2...

Looks like it challenges elements of the desktop metaphor. The white paper (from 2005) on the ideas behind Mezzo explains a bit more: ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/voyager/docs/MezzoGreypaper.pdf

Re: SymphonyOS – Light, Friendly, and Useful

#7

Post by ORioN63 »

mikegioia wrote: post #5

I'm downloading it to try in a VM, but this website has almost 0 information on it. Where are the screenshots? FAQ? Where is any information about what this is or why I should use it? The amount of time it would take to add this info must be a pittance compared to the dev hours they put into the OS!

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

Re: SymphonyOS – Light, Friendly, and Useful

#8

Post by johnchristopher »

pidg wrote: post #6
mikegioia wrote: post #5

I'm downloading it to try in a VM, but this website has almost 0 information on it. Where are the screenshots? FAQ? Where is any information about what this is or why I should use it? The amount of time it would take to add this info must be a pittance compared to the dev hours they put into the OS!

There's a little more in the wiki entry for Mezzo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mezzo_%28desktop_environment%2... Looks like it challenges elements of the desktop metaphor. The white paper (from 2005) on the ideas behind Mezzo explains a bit more: ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/voyager/docs/MezzoGreypaper.pdf

I remember Mezzo from that time. I found the ideas interesting but I couldn't understand why they couldn't plug them into an existing WM via plug-ins.
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