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RE: IRIX-like desktop for Linux/BSD - Raion - 10-28-2021
You gonna bundle it?
Anyways, as I'm now helping out midnightbsd I'm packaging emwm and emwm-utils for FreeBSD. got the latter building okay locally, got the former almost working.
I'll look at pfm again as another option at some point, but the coding issues are weird.
As far as once I get those done, I'm gonna see if I can get the mlogind working as I want, and replace xdm with it. I like XDM, it's simple, it's easy to use, but it's hard to customize it.
I really wish I had more time, but I can't afford to -- otherwise I'd fork the Ted Word processor, fix the build system for it, and include it. But fuck that noise right now.
RE: IRIX-like desktop for Linux/BSD - shrek - 10-28-2021
Sadly no, I can't bundle it. It looked cool but it lacks too many important features like being able to open a file with an external program. It's also full of time bugs (last accessed time on some directories is showing 2040)
I will take a look at compiling Ted and then bundling it. A rich text editor would make a nice addition and I've used the GTK version in the past. Nedit is only good for plain text and source code types it has syntax highlighting for.
RE: IRIX-like desktop for Linux/BSD - Raion - 10-30-2021
http://ftp.vim.org/pub/ibiblio/X11/desktop/llnlxdir1.0.tar.gz
Can't get it to work but looks to be a series of simple fixes, it has a lot of inappropriate return codes, it has a Makefile that doesn't require IMake. It's also BSD
RE: IRIX-like desktop for Linux/BSD - shrek - 10-30-2021
(10-30-2021, 04:18 AM)Raion Wrote: http://ftp.vim.org/pub/ibiblio/X11/desktop/llnlxdir1.0.tar.gz
Can't get it to work but looks to be a series of simple fixes, it has a lot of inappropriate return codes, it has a Makefile that doesn't require IMake. It's also BSD
Nice, I'll take a look.
RE: IRIX-like desktop for Linux/BSD - Raion - 11-01-2021
Besides this there's moxfm -- but uses that dreaded fucking iMake and stuff, and for email, there's xfmail which requires the (now FOSS) Xforms toolkit.
If you need the sources to either one, lmk
RE: IRIX-like desktop for Linux/BSD - shrek - 11-01-2021
(11-01-2021, 04:15 AM)Raion Wrote: Besides this there's moxfm -- but uses that dreaded fucking iMake and stuff, and for email, there's xfmail which requires the (now FOSS) Xforms toolkit.
If you need the sources to either one, lmk
Moxfm builds then segfaults. I tried the most recent fork and it has the same issue. Repo: https://github.com/eukara/moxfm/commits/main
I won't include an email client (for now) since IMO they're all terrible and most people I know use the web browser client from their provider anyways. There is an open source Motif email client named Ishmail but development stopped in 2001. The best bet is probably a custom userchrome for Thunderbird, the email client that makes me tear my hair out the least
RE: IRIX-like desktop for Linux/BSD - Raion - 11-01-2021
Yeah so motif file managers seem to be all junk!
What a shame.
RE: IRIX-like desktop for Linux/BSD - shrek - 11-01-2021
Xplore might be fixable but no promises. It at least runs for little bit.
RE: IRIX-like desktop for Linux/BSD - Raion - 11-01-2021
Xplore looks okay but the codebase is godawful. If you can migrate it off iMake I will go through and check for incorrect ptr casts and such. All of the FMs I tried that are from the late 80s early 90s C code often have (int) casts on pointers, and this tends to wreck shit on modern systems. GCC and LLVM will complain about it, so cast those to uintptr_t (A type designed for casting pointers to ints)
RE: IRIX-like desktop for Linux/BSD - Raion - 11-04-2021
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.