DeforaOS as an embedded desktop environment

News by khorben on 04/06/2010 01:30:46
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