lumina
caja
lumina | caja | |
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13 | 34 | |
526 | 262 | |
0.6% | 2.7% | |
7.9 | 6.9 | |
4 months ago | about 1 month ago | |
C++ | C | |
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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lumina
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OpenBSD KDE Plasma Desktop
Well of course they're not trying to replace macOS, for instance, but when an OS gets big enough to have offshoots and different front-ends and desktop environments and so forth, one would assume there are at least experimental attempts emphasizing ease of use, just like there are experiments to develop offshoots for any other purpose, from power users to pen testers. At least like, someone's toy project on GitHub or SourceForge. I just assumed BSD was big and well-established enough to have such efforts.
Besides GhostBSD, looks like there's also Lumina, and TrueOS/Project Trident?
https://lumina-desktop.org
https://itsfoss.com/trueos-bsd-review/
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Making cross-platform software using Linux that also runs on BSD
Oh, you might also look at the Lumina desktop which strives for minimal dependencies and portability across Linux+BSDs.
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I'm bored with Gnome and KDE. Suggest me something that is drastically different than anything I've ever used before.
You might be interested in Lumina.
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[7b7b] a fork of the lumina desktop
DBus was used only in this part of the code, also i wanted to follow what lumina is claiming about not using linux frameworks.
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Show HN: Lumina Desk – digital desk for health and productivity
Names are hard, but not to be confused with Lumina Desktop?
https://lumina-desktop.org/
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The Reality
There are at least two more independent Qt-based DEs: Lumina and Deepin. Also, MATE and Cinnamon are forks of GNOME.
- Trisquel-mini vs Hyperbola
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So many GTK Desktop Environments, yet so little Qt ones
There are some more qt ones but no clue how actively they are developed: Lumina, cutefish, Trinity...
- Lumina Desktop Environment
caja
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Systemd Rolling Out "run0" As sudo Alternative
I don't know if you are DE shopping, but I've been very happy for the past few years with the MATE Desktop Environment, which "...is the continuation of GNOME 2. It provides an intuitive and attractive desktop environment using traditional metaphors for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems."
https://mate-desktop.org/
Among a great number of things I really like, I will mention that Caja, the MATE version of GNOME 2's Nautilus file manager, still can still be switched to spatial mode.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spatial_file_manager
Generally speaking, I too really liked GNOME 2.32 and its predecessors, and, as far as I'm concerned, MATE is as it describes itself.
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Lobotomizing Gnome
I agree that there is a balance between customization and "cleanness" in design and implementation.
However, I think the GNOME 3 and 4 designers went too far and alienated many users:
https://www.zdnet.com/article/linus-torvalds-finds-gnome-3-4...
https://medium.com/@fulalas/gnome-42-the-nonsense-continues-...
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/wte7tr/gnomes_design...
https://linuxreviews.org/GNOME_Developers_have_Made_Their_Mo...
https://www.osnews.com/story/133955/gnome-to-prevent-theming...
When a designer's "coherent vision" eclipses the needs of the software's users then users get frustrated and either fork the project or go to another project. MATE (https://mate-desktop.org/), Cinnamon (https://github.com/linuxmint/Cinnamon), and Unity (https://unityd.org/) exist largely because of how far the GNOME 3 designers went and how they were not willing to compromise their "coherent vision":
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=121162
https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=1910
https://web.archive.org/web/20101129161856/http://www.pcworl...
- Here's what your typical Linux system looked like in 2003. We've come so far.
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Very New to Linux
MATE
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I'm going to leave Windows to move permanently to Linux Fedora (I've been using Windows + Ubuntu for several years now), can you help me with some questions about Fedora?
Mate https://mate-desktop.org/ would be decent for GTK apps. https://www.gtk.org
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Git migration completed
Arch devs endorsing MATE 😮
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I Still Use Windows 95 (archived, 2008)
> Is there a WM out there that can do the basic quality-of-life functions of today's DEs? I'd love a simple, opinionated WM that takes the features we know are useful today (workspaces, expo mode, sensible file manager layouts, system trays) and gives them a color-adjustable window theme inspired by 90's aesthetics, with minimal compositing that can run fast on hardware as minimal as a prototype RISC-V board. Or really, what we need is a truly minimal DE. Something that doesn't care about GTK or Qt or Kvantum, and stays lean.
Mate desktop environment in my opinion comes closest to the simplicity of the Windows 95/GNOME 2 environments of the old: https://mate-desktop.org/.
Not sure how hardware-frugal it is since maintaining it under GTK 2 was not feasible and it's now developed against GTK 3 (with still maintaining the look and feel of GNOME 2).
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Still unsure as to how this managed to happen 😖
Some people deliberately put mate on their PCs.
- Release Channel 1.50.114
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Any advice on Ubuntu MATE?
I have been using MATE for a couple of years now on an Intel Mac mini and it works... mostly. Things I am not a fan of: 1) Snap packages. For anyone that chimes in about how wonderful they are I have yet to see any evidence of that and, please, do show me how you launch OpenShot Video Editor because, well, it doesn't. 2) X-Windows. I'm sorry, but this should be brain-dead simple as running xhost+ on the device you want to receive the X application on, ssh to the other machine with -Y -C flags so you don't have to set the display variable (and you get compression) and then launch the application and it appears on the desktop session you are using. I've been doing this with UNIX machines since the first week I used one in 1992 or so (only I used telnet and set my display instead of using ssh but that's not the point). Anyway, it should work but almost never does without a mind-numbing around my crap to deal with. I keep a Raspberry Pi 4 running just for this purpose oh and ... 3) VNC. Should work. Does not without a lot of tinkering. Also 4) I recall that I had to take some extra steps so that users on the same MATE box could not see the contents of one another's home directories but this was a while back. The fact that it was ever set to allow users on the same system to view the contents of each other's home directories was and is insane.
What are some alternatives?
nextspace - NeXTSTEP-like desktop environment for Linux
NanaZip - The 7-Zip derivative intended for the modern Windows experience
pcmanfm - Extremely fast and lightweight file manager
mate-optimus - NVIDIA Optimus GPU switcher
os - The OS build system
caja - Caja is a tool for safely embedding third party HTML, CSS and JavaScript in your website.
rs_asio - ASIO for Rocksmith 2014
shell - :shell: Convergent shell for desktops, phones and tables built with QtQuick, Wayland and Material Design
cosmopolitan - build-once run-anywhere c library
QGnomePlatform - QPlatformTheme for a better Qt application inclusion in GNOME
deno - A modern runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript.