JD4X v0.5 now supports both jdk v1.4 or v1.5 (jdk 5). The binary version released is however, compiled for jdk 1.5 (jdk 5).The new JD4X v0.5 + Zesktop v0.3 includes drag and drop support for adding all types of desktop components. Eg. drawers, launchers, applets, workspaces etc… Adding multiple taskbars are also now supported. In addition, utility programs like clock, resource applets and etc are also included in the desktop applet section of the control panel. GUI device mounting support has also been added to mount and unmount devices on the desktop. Eg. CDROM, Floppy and etc… This version should be simpler to use but with a much richer set of features than the previous versions. For the latest set of screen shots.
Java Desktop for X v0.5 released
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thats what I was talking about….
ages ago when the Sun Java Desktop came along.
I though the Sun attempt was going to be like this. I was wrong. It was just another Linux
But this looks very interesting, I will give it a go tomorrow, too tired tonight
I’m gonna try this..
I wonder if this could easily be ported to JNode (an opensource Java OS).. Thus fulfilling Sun’s 10 year old promise of a Java OS! Oh yeah I also remember at some point Sun wanted Java CPUs lol… Is anybody up for designing one?
…have the argument if they should include Java or Mono/C# as the next level language/environment for the DE.
the screenshots look pretty good for an early stage desktop! i’ll be keeping an eye on this as it develops!
Seriously, why? Just because they thought it would be an interesting thing to do, or is there more to it than that?
Perhaps sharing desktop Jvm can save system resources. Eg. memory usage. Applications and desktop might be faster when sharing a single Jvm process than it would be to have a process for each Jvm application. Also may be it makes sense to reuse the large amount of Java OSS applications and libraries out there. A single toolkit environment like Java can make development very easy for larger projects. And lastly no shared library hell to maintain.
Just a wild guess!