[Cuis] Window Manager?! (was Re: Fixing the Taskbar)

[Germán Arduino]

Thanks for like the idea :)

Was several years ago, in the context of the project Small-Land started by
my friend Diego Gomez Deck when he was working in the Extremadura
government.

Unfortunately all the material in the wiki (in such times hosted by an
Argentinian university) was lost when the university suspended the host
service (but the project was sort of abandoned time before still)

I should ask Diego if he have some backup of this material and also I
should check my own old backups to see what I can found. But as I remember
was not a very complex thing and was not working completely (I remember
vaguely that one of the problems to solve was that the WM can't add the
control buttons in the squeak windows (minimize, maximize, close).

And yes, I agree that having a sort of CuisOS would be a VERY interesting
approach to lot of uses (embedded computing for example).

Cheers and happy new year to all the fellow in Cuis community and thanks
for all the thing that I can learn each day from all of you!



2014/1/1 Casey Ransberger <casey.obrien.r at gmail.com>

> Germán: if you still have the machinery that you used to do this, could
> you share it? What you're describing is something I've wanted to try
> absolutely forever. I hate the context switch from host to Smalltalk. It
> seems far preferable to have the Smalltalk environment host the one
> application I don't have a Smalltalk implementation for (read: the web
> browser.)
>
> With something like this, some care, and probably some optimization, we
> can approach something like a CuisOS. Stick a BSD under it. Wouldn't that
> be fabulous?
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 3:15 PM, Germán Arduino <garduino at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>
>> 2014/1/1 Ken Dickey <Ken.Dickey at whidbey.com>
>>
>>> On Wed, 1 Jan 2014 14:58:04 +0000
>>> "H. Hirzel" <hannes.hirzel at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> > The question is -- what else could the dashboard be used for?
>>>
>>> Any kind of status/control which one wants to keep visible.
>>>
>>>   Current weather
>>>   Laptop battery charge status
>>>   Sound level
>>>   Media playback control
>>>   Network status/activity
>>>   eMail/IM arrival
>>>   CPU/Memory/Disk/.. capacity
>>>
>>>
>> I remember several years ago trying to use Squeak (I do not remember the
>> exact version) as the window manager of LinEx (A Spanish Linux, from
>> Extremadura government). It worked at a minimun, but still we needed
>> applications to control the sort of stuf that Ken mention. Anyway, using
>> OSProcess we were able to launch common Gnome apps.
>>
>>
>>
>>> We just have to write enough interesting things to show off.  ;^)
>>>
>>>
>> Hehe, or go ahead with a sort of stuff as CuisNOS (imitating SqueakNOS) :)
>>
>>
>>>  -KenD
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Germán Arduino
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