Language, OS and GUI -independent windowing API provided as a virtual filesystem

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Post by gelstudios » Mon, May 13, 2024, 5:53 PM UTC

Language, OS and GUI -independent windowing API provided as a virtual filesystem
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Re: Language, OS and GUI -independent windowing API provided as a virtual filesystem

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Post by LanternLight83 » Mon, May 13, 2024, 7:18 PM UTC

Reminds me of Tagsistant's FUSE-based tagged-filesystem API, which touts full compatibility with graphical file -managers and -sharing protocols as a major advantage.

Re: Language, OS and GUI -independent windowing API provided as a virtual filesystem

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Post by euclaise » Mon, May 13, 2024, 7:27 PM UTC

Simpler than, but somewhat reminiscent of, Plan 9's windowing system https://man.cat-v.org/plan_9/4/rio

Re: Language, OS and GUI -independent windowing API provided as a virtual filesystem

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Post by skywal_l » Mon, May 13, 2024, 7:55 PM UTC

Last updated 2014-07-03

So I guess (2014) is missing.

Re: Language, OS and GUI -independent windowing API provided as a virtual filesystem

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Post by v3ss0n » Mon, May 13, 2024, 8:02 PM UTC

Qtile have it since start, build upon it so it is very flexible to extend and it is in python

Re: Language, OS and GUI -independent windowing API provided as a virtual filesystem

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, May 14, 2024, 1:43 PM UTC

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Re: Language, OS and GUI -independent windowing API provided as a virtual filesystem

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Post by dormento » Tue, May 14, 2024, 3:23 PM UTC

> A prototype of FORGE is implemented in MacRelix; a port to FUSE is in progress.

MacRelix was recently featured on hn. It is a Unix-like environment for classic Mac OS.