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Building a new gui for an operating system
hello there,
 Im not shore if this is the right place, and im not to shore on how to word my question. I want to make a desktop thingy or a gui, like KDE or Gomme , but better like Macs Finder or like Microsofts Explorer. the Operating system im going to intergrate it into is FreeBSD.  but i dont know where to start. Can anyone point me to any tutorials or Help me here. Thanks in advance TheRevenge |
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Aug 9th, 2008, 11:48 PM
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Re: Building a new gui for an operating system
Okay, let me see if I understand.
You want to make your own personalised GUI for the FreeBSD operating system and you want some help. Question: What is your programming experience?
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Aug 10th, 2008, 12:00 AM
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Re: Building a new gui for an operating system
i have experience in Pascal, visual basic, Python, and im learning C++
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Aug 10th, 2008, 12:09 AM
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Re: Building a new gui for an operating system
If you still have XP, look at this.
A few people us this to make there own flashy styles on the operating system. Read it and click on the ResHacker link.
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Aug 10th, 2008, 2:04 AM
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Re: Building a new gui for an operating system
Have you taken a closer look at the inner workins of *nix window managers? You might be surprised at how much you can customize them. There are many tutorials avaialble for creating themes in Gnome or KDE, and they're open source, so they are highly customizable under the hood as well. Writing add-on applications which help further enhance the interface is also a very viable option and is a heck of a lot simpler than creating your own window manager from scratch.
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Aug 12th, 2008, 3:18 PM
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Re: Building a new gui for an operating system
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Aug 14th, 2008, 9:51 PM
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Re: Building a new gui for an operating system
I would follow Soulstorm's advice. After that you will want to look into the X Window System framework and build your GUI using that (this is also what Gnome and KDE use).
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Re: Building a new gui for an operating system
Doing this is fairly straightforward. Learn Haskell (haha) and take a look at the XMonad source code of early versions like 0.1, 0.2, for examples.
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