SymphonyOS – Light, Friendly, and Useful

Post by arm » Thu, Dec 17, 2015, 12:00 AM UTC

david-given wrote: post #38

ryanq_do wrote: post #27

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Many of the concepts we built into Symphony have since become common in major desktop and mobile environments such as fullscreen menus and hot corners. The project started in 2004 when I as a web developer wanted to start playing in the Desktop space and decided to give it a shot with the tools I knew. These days it's a personal side project that I wish I had more time for. I do not have any videos of the new build i…

Mmm. I loathe hot corners; every day or so I accidentally lock the screen on my work macbook because when I fling the mouse pointer out of the way of what I'm looking at it hits a corner. I also loathe full-screen menus. Screens are big, and having the entire contents of my screen be replaced with an information-heavy overlay is a non-trivial perceptual context switch which instantly causes me to lose my place in wha…

Post by tracker1 » Thu, Dec 17, 2015, 7:44 AM UTC

ryanq_do wrote: post #19

david-given wrote: post #16

tl;dr: it's a Debian derivative. (I could be wrong. The wikipedia page is very mangled, and the website is entirely content free.) It looks like it mainly exists as a platform for Mezzo, a desktop environment. I skimmed the design document; it's painfully opinionated, and keeps repeating the tired old cliché that users can't handle configuration options and we should make their lives easier but not letting them chang…

The design document is 11 years old. Symphony has been a solo side project for the last 6-7 years with a release once or twice a year. There are a few more recent updates on the project's facebook page including screenshots of the new build in progress. https://www.facebook.com/SymphonyOS/

Post by ryanq_do » Thu, Dec 17, 2015, 4:23 PM UTC

tracker1 wrote: post #44

ryanq_do wrote: post #19

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The design document is 11 years old. Symphony has been a solo side project for the last 6-7 years with a release once or twice a year. There are a few more recent updates on the project's facebook page including screenshots of the new build in progress. https://www.facebook.com/SymphonyOS/

Silly question, the site notes the OS works on a low-memory platform, but the only download seems to be x64... Any plans for other release platforms rPI, oPI, etc?