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RE: IRIX-like desktop for Linux/BSD - shrek - 11-04-2021
(11-04-2021, 01:42 AM)Raion Wrote: So I was playing with FLTK's GUI tool today, and I found some widget and designs that look vaguely IRIX-ish.
Now you guys will see why I like FLTK.
No callbacks or anything implemented yet, and it's mostly just me playing around. If I continue to build something like this, it'll more than likely be a simpler file manager than IRIX's.
I think, count me wrong, but the IRIX file manager also may be tied into icon catalog and the desktop icons.
That looks really good. All it needs is a few of the widgets shifted slightly and a few more buttons on the side. In the meantime I'll check out some of the GTK file managers and see if any look good with a Motif theme.
Xplore is a mess and I can't fix it.
RE: IRIX-like desktop for Linux/BSD - Raion - 11-04-2021
I doubt the GTK file managers will fit the bill.
If I did something like that it would absolutely be a lot simpler and I don't think I could actually have a functional roller for zoom since the fltk file browser is not openGL enabled.
I mostly had it there to make a statement of how similar the two are.
RE: IRIX-like desktop for Linux/BSD - shrek - 11-06-2021
(11-04-2021, 04:43 PM)Raion Wrote: I doubt the GTK file managers will fit the bill.Could the thumbwheel be used to navigate up and down through directories? Just an idea if you want a to keep the widget.
If I did something like that it would absolutely be a lot simpler and I don't think I could actually have a functional roller for zoom since the fltk file browser is not openGL enabled.
I mostly had it there to make a statement of how similar the two are.
By the way the next source release with build instructions will be delayed for another week. There are a few things I want to accomplish first like usable build instructions and an ARM port. I might put out a compressed Debian SD card image for the Raspberry Pi that's ready to use if I can get it working properly.
RE: IRIX-like desktop for Linux/BSD - Raion - 12-13-2021
Finally got around to start porting this all proper to midnightbsd -- have you had time Shrek to get the stuff updated to work with the latest emwm?
RE: IRIX-like desktop for Linux/BSD - shrek - 12-14-2021
(12-13-2021, 05:40 AM)Raion Wrote: Finally got around to start porting this all proper to midnightbsd -- have you had time Shrek to get the stuff updated to work with the latest emwm?
I'm doing build scripts. Should be finished by the end of the year at most. Some parts are not so portable like xmsvm that needs libdbus or apanel that needs ALSA. The audio panel should be an easy port though to whatever the native audio system is.
RE: IRIX-like desktop for Linux/BSD - shrek - 12-29-2021
Ok, here's the source release. For now it fully supports Devuan or Debian only. When you extract the tarball you'll get DVdist and in the top level of that I have some scripts to install the dependencies and compile. There are two README files, one plain text and one HTML formatted. It's very important to read one of those before doing anything else.
Please note that I have NOT tested this thoroughly and it's an early release, plus the docs are unfinished. You might want to try it in a VM/container or make a full system backup first.
Merry (belated) Christmas and a happy New Year to all
https://files.catbox.moe/aru1am.gz <- Catbox eats file extensions. Rename to .tar.gz
RE: IRIX-like desktop for Linux/BSD - robertson - 01-06-2022
Hi,
I'm new to this forum and I just wanted to thank you for your work on this "IRIX-like desktop for Linux/BSD." I really am enjoying the old-school, 90s vibes of emwm, the "Toolbox," etc., and using and tweaking these themes and configurations. Perhaps I'll post a screenshot later.
My only experience with SGI and Irix was in the Fall of 2003 when I had a once-a-week internship (which was part of an "honors" project) with the weatherman at an NPR/PBS station run by my university. I remember watching him get the animated graphics ready for the TV weather forecast on some kind of SGI machine. I remember thinking it all looked pretty cool if maybe a little stodgy or "antiquated".
I've been using some form of Linux as my main computing platform since 1998 or so (I'm currently running Devuan Chimaera 4.0) and have also dabbled in running *BSD and other OSes such as Haiku. I've also played with with MaXX Interactive Desktop recently, but greatly appreciate the fully Free/Open Source nature of your project here.
I found this forum through Raion's Reddit posts, I believe.
In any event, Merry belated Christmas and thank you again for your work on this!
- "robertson"
RE: IRIX-like desktop for Linux/BSD - Raion - 01-06-2022
Welcome to the forums Robertson!
We're interested in seeing more people come in for other such reasons, for sure.
I'm not a very huge fan of MaXX and his project, to put it lightly. I have a relationship with him stemming back to 2014, but you can search the forum for my rants on that.
FOSS is good, and it's beneficial even moreso when it's not GPL'd IMHO. I'm glad that we've been mostly able to keep GPL out of these, but it's gonna get harder as I'm working with Midnight and will be making them a DE soonish.
RE: IRIX-like desktop for Linux/BSD - shrek - 01-06-2022
(01-06-2022, 04:00 AM)robertson Wrote: Hi,
I'm new to this forum and I just wanted to thank you for your work on this "IRIX-like desktop for Linux/BSD." I really am enjoying the old-school, 90s vibes of emwm, the "Toolbox," etc., and using and tweaking these themes and configurations. Perhaps I'll post a screenshot later.
My only experience with SGI and Irix was in the Fall of 2003 when I had a once-a-week internship (which was part of an "honors" project) with the weatherman at an NPR/PBS station run by my university. I remember watching him get the animated graphics ready for the TV weather forecast on some kind of SGI machine. I remember thinking it all looked pretty cool if maybe a little stodgy or "antiquated".
I've been using some form of Linux as my main computing platform since 1998 or so (I'm currently running Devuan Chimaera 4.0) and have also dabbled in running *BSD and other OSes such as Haiku. I've also played with with MaXX Interactive Desktop recently, but greatly appreciate the fully Free/Open Source nature of your project here.
I found this forum through Raion's Reddit posts, I believe.
In any event, Merry belated Christmas and thank you again for your work on this!
- "robertson"
I'm glad you're enjoying it. Some of the build scripts are broken by the way, so to get Xosview2 (System Load Viewer) running you'll have to go into /opt/DeskView/bin/SystemLoadViewer/src and then into the source directory and configure + make install as root again. I think I might have copied in an older incomplete core build script or it just didn't run right. I'll try to get everything fixed up this weekend.
Edit: New desktop icons.
RE: IRIX-like desktop for Linux/BSD - Shiunbird - 01-07-2022
OMG the O2 icon
<3 cute