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Orb is a free and open source web desktop

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Re: Orb is a free and open source web desktop

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Post by yencabulator »

bokchoi wrote: post #104
calini wrote: post #6

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My Synology NAS uses something like this for its navigation and even if it's initially strange, you instantly miss it when you access it from your phone, when the UI turns into this nested list which is not intuitive at all

I also like the Synology UI. It is helpful to see multiple apps at the same time and is especially useful when moving files around to have two or more file browser windows open.

> It is helpful to see multiple apps at the same time

Without their desktop thing, this would just be "open link in new tab" for the apps you want open at the same time.

Spatial file navigation & manipulation might be the one reasonable reason for the fake desktop.

Re: Orb is a free and open source web desktop

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Post by James-Livesey »

NayamAmarshe wrote: post #139
James-Livesey wrote: post #138

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This is what I've been working on with LiveG OS, whose desktop environment, gShell, is written in HTML/CSS/JS: https://liveg.tech/os The OS is also designed to run on mobile devices, so there's some cross-platform consistency between the system on desktop and mobile devices. It's currently designed to run web apps, but the hope is to also include support for typical Linux GTK and Qt apps (or any app that uses Xwindow…

Awesome! Do you have a Telegram channel or a waitlist? I'd love to join!

We don't have Telegram, but we do have a Discord community — the link to it is at the bottom of the website at https://liveg.tech!

Re: Orb is a free and open source web desktop

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Post by NayamAmarshe »

James-Livesey wrote: post #142
NayamAmarshe wrote: post #139

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Awesome! Do you have a Telegram channel or a waitlist? I'd love to join!

We don't have Telegram, but we do have a Discord community — the link to it is at the bottom of the website at https://liveg.tech !

Sorry, discord is a NO NO for me. I think you should create an email waitlist, that would be a bit better :)

Re: Orb is a free and open source web desktop

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Post by James-Livesey »

NayamAmarshe wrote: post #143
James-Livesey wrote: post #142

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We don't have Telegram, but we do have a Discord community — the link to it is at the bottom of the website at https://liveg.tech !

Sorry, discord is a NO NO for me. I think you should create an email waitlist, that would be a bit better :)

Of course, yeah Discord is a bit of a closed-source walled garden, but we're considering setting up a Matrix.org server some point soon as an open replacement for our current community.

We currently release all Alpha versions onto our site at https://liveg.tech/os/get, so there's no need to 'wait' as such to try out the system in its current state! As for being notified as to when we'll release the next version, we normally let everyone know through Mastodon, as well as on other social networks such as YouTube and even (dare I say it) Twitter — sorry, I mean X.

But it might be worth us setting up some sort of email-based notifier to let people know when new releases are available, so I'll take your advice onboard!

Re: Orb is a free and open source web desktop

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Post by guggle »

capableweb wrote: post #136
guggle wrote: post #123

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Funny how some people have this mindset only about jquery and not unecessary fonts, icons, image backgrounds, etc.

When have I argued that? Or are you putting other people's opinion and saying I hold them?

Where did I say it was you ?
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