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Ede – An Fltk based desktop environment (2014)

by RalfWausE on 2/3/24, 7:47 AM with 36 comments

• by ReleaseCandidat on 2/3/24, 10:57 AM

  Regarding FLTK: was originálly done by Bill Spitzak (who obviously has used IRIX/4DWM), now famous for Nuke https://www.atogt.com/askoscar/display-person.php?id=74125&v...

  https://spitzak.github.io/

• by LeFantome on 2/3/24, 5:16 PM

  FLTK is still under active development and claims to be adding Wayland support in the next release. Last release was December 2023.

  EDE itself though looks like a dead project. I would not expect this to survive the jump to Wayland.

• by marttt on 2/3/24, 10:10 AM

  This is really nice, thanks for sharing. Looking back, the obvious inspiration here, Classic Windows, was a remarkably good user interface. (Or, many people simply have a soft spot for it, because we used it for a very long time.)

  I imagine Ede would play perfectly with Tiny Core Linux [1] which has FLTK/FLWM as its default desktop system.

  1: http://www.tinycorelinux.net/

• by rglullis on 2/3/24, 10:15 AM

  > built to have a familiar look and feel.

  Not familiar for anyone born after the 90's.

• by jakearmitage on 2/3/24, 11:32 PM

  FLTK is fun and fast.