Étoilé
Étoilé intends to be
an innovative GNUstep based desktop environment built from the ground
up on highly modular and light components with project and document
orientation in mind.
It is created with project and document orientation in mind,
in order to allow users to create their own workflow by reshaping or
recombining provided Services (aka Applications) and Components.
This desktop environment (includings its user interface) is in
a fairly early stage of development, and is not yet ready for
production systems.
It is also available as a LiveCD.
Etoile 0.4.1
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Price
Free to download
Size
8.5MB
License
Various licenses are used (BSD and MIT the most widely)
Developer
David Chisnall, Quentin Mathé, Nicolas Roard, Jesse
Ross, Yen-Ju Chen, and contributors
Website
etoileos.com
System Requirements
GNUstep
Support
Sites:
Blog
Selected
Reviews:
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Features include:
- Light, focused applications,
cooperating together to provide a rich user experience, using GNUstep
services and its own Services model
- Fast, simple data sharing between tasks and documents
without
involving lot of context switches (between applications, windows,
selection etc.)
- Facility provided by default to composite, layout unrelated
elements in first-class objects like documents, folders etc
- Workflow based on project inspired management (versioning,
indexing, sharing etc.)
- Easy communication/collaboration among users, where users
are first-class objects in the environment
- Assistant technology similar to the Newton's approach
- Frameworks:
- CoreObject - a framework for describing and organizing
model objects
- LanguageKit - a compiler kit built on top of
LLVM for creating dynamic language implementations using an Objective-C
runtime for the object
model
- EtoileFoundation - core framework for all Étoilé projects
- EtoileUI - a high-level, object-oriented, user interface
toolkit that provides a uniform tree representation for graphical
objects on top of the AppKit
- LuceneKit - provides full-text indexing and searching
- OgreKit - a powerful regular expression framework
- MediaKit - provides support for sound playback
and recording and, in the future, video
- Mélodie - a music jukebox using CoreObject for the music
library and MediaKit for playback
- Étoilé applications which use ScriptKit are scriptable from
outside using Objective-C or Smalltalk
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Last Updated Sunday, April 03 2011 @ 04:04 PM EDT
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