You know Shawn, your timing is slightly suspicious. :-) <looking at date>
sri On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 6:19 AM, Shawn Thompson <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 >
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