On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 10:44 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 9:09 PM, Shawn Thompson <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> Despite the fact that Gnome-shell isn't truly "complete" yet, me and a >> friend have actually begun to create a version of it for the Apple II. >> Now, you might be thinking, why would you want to change the desktop >> of an Apple computer? Didn't they invent a lot of the GUI norms? The >> reason, is because we can. Note, it's still incomplete, but I've >> actually managed to get some of the window behaviours down correctly, >> though in a 2D monochrome way of course. Still, the recreation of such >> an advanced,highly complexicated and EASY window management system >> within the confines of such hardware is an achievement on its own! >> >> Of course, to prove I'm not pulling your legs, here are some >> screenshots: http://imgur.com/a/yH4Z1 >> >> The first picture is the shell running on an emulator. You can see >> that it is able to run Apple II native apps, alongside the ability to >> search through them and other files in your storage medias (we're >> still working on it, it takes about 46 seconds from the striking of >> return for it to give results). The second screenshot, unfortunately >> taken with my friend's crappy cellphone, shows it running a calculator >> app on an actual Apple IIc computer. >> >> Once we figure out how to get it into a format that can actually be >> edited on a normal modern computer, we will see if we can put the >> source code up on the Gnome GIT repository. The code ''is'' rather >> fascinating to look at too. You'll love how we did it >:) > > I suppose you want translation too, huh? :-) I must admit that's quite an > interesting thing. But good grief, Apple ][?? Crazy man... > > sri >
I don't think we can even handle unicode. _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
