[jdp] - Recently, I've been looking at the [weeapps] (or @apps) project. I think that it's an awesome idea; I thought it was a couple years ago, and there hasn't been any activity for a while.

[Larry Smith] There is, and there isn't.  It has progressed some, but not recently.

(back to [jdp]) - So I took the [weedesk] code and started hacking at the code. I've added application launching, basic package management, an extension system, a configuration system, several applications, and a few other things.

Does anyone else still like the weeapps/weedesk idea? If anyone else is interested, I can put the code+resources (~822KB) I have assembled on SourceForge or Google Code so that the community has access - in which case I should be considered as looking for co-developers; the time I have to devote to this project is somewhat finite.

[Larry Smith] I'd like to see that.
[jdp] Looking at the flurry of activity on the wee* pages, it seems that a SourceForge project of my material would be pointless at the moment. I've made a tarball of everything as it is now and put it http://jpage-images.1.xpdev-hosted.com/aDesk.tar.gz%|%online here.%|% There's a file called todo.txt in the doc folder, it explains the goals I had in mind, along with a number of the design principles, etc. There is an explanation of the directory structure at the bottom.

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[jdp] - List of what has already been completed (to pique interest):

   * Application launching (in their own interpreters)
''[Larry Smith] I have a version which does this, too.''
   * Configuration
''[Larry Smith] What does you mean?''
''[jdp] Hmm, bad wording. I mean I've put together a config editor + library.''
   * A somewhat loose, but existent, extension system
   * The following @apps have been completed: @Calc (Calculator), @Conf (Config file editor)
''[Larry Smith] I have added Torsten Manz's HP-15C simulator.''
''[jdp] My version is mainly a GUI for expr, nothing worth speaking of compared to that''
   * In progress: @Code (Code editor), @Edit (Word processor), Kitty (Package manager)
   * The desktop system has been built - based on [weedesk]
   * A long todo list has been made

I would like to aim for this to be a portable, extensible desktop environment, but in the future, it could be mounted on top of a BSD or Linux system and be set up as a whole Tcl-based OS.  Since everything would be pure-tcl, the user would have the ability to quickly and easily make radical changes to the environment, which would be totally impossible (or very difficult) in other environments.

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