Kera Desktop: open-source, cross-platform, web-based desktop environment

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dmenu

This is a wonderful project! I've been thinking a lot about making such a unified desktop stack for a while now; web technology has matured to the point where I think it's feasible to build a complete environment a la Smalltalk/Symbolics but with a modern feature set. Obviously this has deficiencies but like it or not the web _is_ computing for the vast majority of people and exploring/pushing its limits of user experience. Projects like Arc[1] and suckless[2] approach browsers in novel (albeit divergent) ways, but as a whole it seems to be a very unexplored problem space. The idea of an Engelbart[3] style system built for the modern hypermedia-capable platform is an intoxicating one that desperately needs more attention. [1]: https://thebrowser.company/ [2]: https://surf.suckless.org/ with https://tools.suckless.org/tabbed/ and https://tools.suckless.org/dmenu/ [3]: https://archive.org/details/motherofalldemos_reel1.

#Mac #Productivity #App Launcher 22 social mentions

This is a wonderful project! I've been thinking a lot about making such a unified desktop stack for a while now; web technology has matured to the point where I think it's feasible to build a complete environment a la Smalltalk/Symbolics but with a modern feature set. Obviously this has deficiencies but like it or not the web _is_ computing for the vast majority of people and exploring/pushing its limits of user experience. Projects like Arc[1] and suckless[2] approach browsers in novel (albeit divergent) ways, but as a whole it seems to be a very unexplored problem space. The idea of an Engelbart[3] style system built for the modern hypermedia-capable platform is an intoxicating one that desperately needs more attention. [1]: https://thebrowser.company/ [2]: https://surf.suckless.org/ with https://tools.suckless.org/tabbed/ and https://tools.suckless.org/dmenu/ [3]: https://archive.org/details/motherofalldemos_reel1.

#Web Browsers #Web Development Tools #Customisable Web Browser 43 social mentions

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tmuxinator

I once bought a 32 core ThreadRipper and tried to get along with using a cheap £200 Windows 10 laptop to remote into the threadripper while in coffee shops and use the ThreadRipper to do my work. The £200 Windows 10 laptop wasn't powerful enough, it was too laggy. Even on Wifi. I love the idea of the X11 protocol. And I still love the idea of a web desktop. Something that is supremely well integrated and allows me to move workloads between client and server seamlessly. This idea I really like. The ability to outsource computation and storage seamlessly. A process can be moved between machines seamlessly. This could be modelled in Javascript and promises that can be sent around. Microservices in the desktop environment. I looked at tools that would bring up tmux sessions with everything preloaded. (https://github.com/tmuxinator/tmuxinator) There is also val town. I never use KDE Plasma widgets or the sidebar widgets that Mac provided. There is so many exciting ideas that could be tried out but I worry they're all too big ideas to be implemented.

#SSH #Uptime Monitoring #Text Editors 32 social mentions