Orb VS gShell

I took a peek at the "Explorer" app code base. PHP + JS + jQuery, but surprisingly readable (but a lot of practices in there that are not exactly considered "best" today). Perhaps we have sunk too deep into the SPA/API rabbit hole that we can no longer appreciate simplicity.

https://gitlab.com/hsleisink/orb/-/blob/master/public/apps/e...

https://gitlab.com/hsleisink/orb/-/blob/master/public/apps/e...

Download source | Demo website

Source: https://gitlab.com/hsleisink/orb Demo: https://desktop.leisink.net/

Apps are small Javascripts. Take the Notepad app for example.

Live demo | Screenshot| Source code

Download at Gitlab or try the online demo.

I'm also working on a web desktop, called Orb. It's has an actual back-end. It's free and open source. Download the source at GitLabor check out the online demo.

Thank you so much for the kind words! If you're looking for a desktop environment WITH cloud filesystem the only one I know of at the moment is https://gitlab.com/hsleisink/orb. If you mean just the local desktop environment, there is a big list here.

Web apps open up large opportunities that can allow LiveG OS to compete with today's major operating systems, as PWA technologies enable a large range of existing apps to be installed to LiveG OS, such as Mastodon, Twitter, YouTube — and even our own apps, like LiveG Docs. The OS-independent compatibility that web apps have make PWA technologies an ideal platform for LiveG OS, and LiveG OS's own system apps — and even its desktop environment, gShell — are themselves made using web technologies.

This is what I've been working on with LiveG OS, whose desktop environment, gShell, is written in HTML/CSS/JS: https://liveg.tech/os

The OS is also designed to run on mobile devices, so there's some cross-platform consistency between the system on desktop and mobile devices.

It's currently designed to run web apps, but the hope is to also include support for typical Linux GTK and Qt apps (or any app that uses Xwindows) soon to aid daily driveability.

The current release can't do much yet, but we'll be releasing our next Alpha version in about a week or two which include a few more useful features on top of what's already available on our site!

As you can see, the architecture of gShell is complex and uses multiple layers. If you have any questions, leave them in the comments. You could also check out our gShell repository on GitHub.

The main interface uses our own user environment, called gShell. It uses Adapt UI (web demo), which is the user interface design language and framework which we developed in-house over the course of a few months.