News

As the project's homepage suggests for a few days now [0], a new milestone was reached. Its first consequence is the possibility to run the DeforaOS desktop on an embedded platform, given these tight requirements on such devices:

• light and efficient, written in C for Gtk+, with fewer dependencies
• user-friendly application launcher, file management and hardware monitoring
• designed for small screen sizes alike
• stylus- and finger-friendly (on-screen keyboard...)

Naturally, it provides a number of graphical applications as required; in alphabetical order:

• Browser, taking care of the homescreen, desktop handling, file management [1]
• Editor, a simple text editor [2]
• Framer, the window manager [3]
• Mailer, young e-mail and RSS client [4]
• Mixer, handling the volume controls [5]
• Panel, with an application launcher and many applets [6]
• Player, a media player [7]
• Surfer, fully-functional web browser [8]
• Todo, a young task management application [9]

Of course, they are all being actively used, developed and maintained, given their respective feature-set. The website is currently being improved, so as to provide screenshots of each of them soon; this will be announced here as well.

[0] http://www.defora.org/
[1] http://www.defora.org/os/project/display/230/Browser
[2] http://www.defora.org/os/project/display/253/Editor
[3] http://www.defora.org/os/project/display/3283/Framer
[4] http://www.defora.org/os/project/display/268/Mailer
[5] http://www.defora.org/os/project/display/3305/Mixer
[6] http://www.defora.org/os/project/display/3262/Panel
[7] http://www.defora.org/os/project/display/336/Player
[8] http://www.defora.org/os/project/display/340/Surfer
[9] http://www.defora.org/os/project/display/3299/Todo