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An x86-64 operating system built from xv6, now largely rewritten: SMP, a copy-on-write root filesystem (SchFS), PCI/USB/virtio drivers, a TTF rasteriser, and a Linux-numbered syscall ABI. No history before this point -- the tree was never under version control. This commit exists so the rename that follows has something to undo to. |
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SchDE — the Schunix Desktop Environment
The parts you actually look at: a panel, a launcher, settings, a file manager, a terminal.
SchDE is a set of ordinary Schcom clients plus whatever shared widget code they end up needing. Nothing in it is privileged and nothing in it is special — if SchDE can do something that a third-party program could not, the line has been drawn in the wrong place.
Status
Not started. Last of the three, and deliberately so: there is no point designing a panel before there is a compositor to put it on.
What it will need that does not exist yet
- Text rendering. Everything here is text, and the console's fixed 8×16
CP437 grid is not usable for it. See phase 4 of
docs/roadmap.md— a real glyph cache and rasteriser, and layout as a library inlib/so the terminal and the file manager are not each solving it. - A widget toolkit, however small. Even a panel needs buttons, labels and hit testing.
- A terminal emulator. Note the direction: the kernel console parses ANSI today because it draws directly to the framebuffer. A GUI terminal is a client that parses ANSI itself and renders it with proportional-capable text. The two do not share code.