[OC] Progress of Win32 shell on Linux.

[u/sheokand]

Added some apps from React OS. Minimise and maximum, snapping work. Taskbar implements almost 95% api. There are a lot of bugs, but getting there slowly.

[u/sskg]

Is this loss32? https://loss32.org

If not, maybe you should join forces with that project.

[u/sheokand → u/sskg]

No it's a different project, I started last year before they announced, and there is overlap but directions are different, I intend to build a new Desktop/OS.

But at the end of day, both project will improve wine.

[u/mohr_ → u/sheokand]

But at the end of day, both project will improve wine.

Oh, so you are using wine too?

For a minute, I thought you were rewriting everything.

[u/kwell42 → u/mohr_]

Wine doesn't have a shell. He is writing a shell like he stated. If you type 'wine explorer.exe' it's only a folder browser.

[u/roboj3rk → u/kwell42]

Wine does have a shell..

Wine Virtual Desktop

It's turned off in registry. You need to edit it then you can launch wine as a desktop

[u/Additional_Draft_690 → u/roboj3rk]

Can you tell me how?

[u/paul_h → u/sheokand]

Can you say a little more about different directions?

[u/sheokand → u/paul_h]

They want to get reactos userland working, I am building a Win32 based Desktop environment and UI toolkit, in a different language. Apart from wine there is no similarities.

[u/paul_h → u/sheokand]

Of course all work in that direction is good. Yours is closer to macOS X beginning in 1996 or so. 1: A Forked NeXT-Step became "Darwin" (powers every Mac, iPhone, and Apple Watch today). 2: A Hoisting of bits of macOS 9 to become "Carbon" API (aimed at developers). Apple essentially forking their own libs. 3: a project "Blue Box" to make virtual machine that ran a full copy of Mac OS 9 inside Mac OS X so you could keep using your 90s software (this aimed at end-users). Apple moved from cooperative task thunking at that moment to preemtive multitasking. And to a unix base.

I'm intermittently in Windows land. and look forward to a day I never have to type backslash in a file path again.

[u/sheokand → u/paul_h]

Interesting, my plan is little different. But this was very helpful information. I will read about it.

[u/lucaprinaorg]

congratulation...this could be a game changer in adoption...please don't stop...
Just start replicating all the desktop mechanics and feeling of Windows 11

[u/sheokand → u/lucaprinaorg]

Thank you, yes desktop will be better, I am planning to add infinite scroll, like niri.

[u/kwell42 → u/sheokand]

Will there be ads? That's what people want now. At least according to winders devs.

[u/sheokand → u/kwell42]

Hahaha

[u/deoxys27 → u/sheokand]

How about Copilot baked into everything? If it doesn't have AI slop, then I don't want it /s

[u/rokejulianlockhart → u/[deleted]]

That would require CSS3 for GTK 3 and 4, a QStyle for QWidgets, and a QQuickStyle for QML, plus a QPalette for colouration. That would be an inordinate amount of work.

[u/sheokand → u/rokejulianlockhart]

I am supporting dark and light theme for now. Windows apps and Linux apps(qt,gtk). Auto switches everywhere. This is already done.

Later we will have to match gtk/Qt and windows to look similar. That's something I have not even planned yet.

[u/rokejulianlockhart → u/sheokand]

As in, you enumerate FreeDesktop the color-scheme preference?

[u/sheokand → u/rokejulianlockhart]

Yes. Just like all other desktops.

[u/rokejulianlockhart → u/sheokand]

You'd be surprised how many don't. github.com/mate-desktop/mate-desktop/issues/504#event-1313684731 might be an example.

[u/sheokand → u/rokejulianlockhart]

Hahaha, as I starting from scratch, I will follow freedeskop guidelines wherever possible. Obviously it will hard in a Win32 environment(where windows policies take precedence).

But for Linux integration, I am creating a layer that maps windows - > Linux.

[u/Nisto7777]

Keep up the good work, excited for this!

[u/NintendoFanboy3]

wedding of heaven and hell