Weedesk - a wee little desktop environment in tcl/tk.
Weedesk is an idea I've been noodling over for several days, and the sudden appearance of Desktop Environment shows me I'm not the only one wishing for a simple, extensible, portable desktop environment.
The Desktop Environment page lists a number of applications, but all of these are designed to stand alone. Ideally apps for the wee desktop would be new and designed just for it.
In my prototype code I've decided to go for a Macintosh-like system - the menubar goes across the top of the screen and changes as you select various windows. However, I've not integrated tkMenuMgr from Menus Even Easier yet, so all there is is a place-holding button that exits the desktop.
I picture a desktop with a number of lightweight, scriptable, applications: weeEdit is used for all text editing, weeCalc is the spreadsheet, weePage is a page layout app - takes text from weeEdit files and allows you to insert them into a web page - there would be no "weeWord", just weeEdit and weePage, which together serve the same purpose using html as an internal file format. Some other apps would be weeBrowse, weeMail, weeProg (an IDE/debugger for developing scripts) weeData (the database), weeChat,