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A related sort of idea, which has been posted to HN before but never gotten a huge amount of attention is the Arcan project [1]. Basically an interesting imple
by cnasc 8y ago
A related sort of idea, which has been posted to HN before but never gotten a huge amount of attention is the Arcan project [1].
Basically an interesting implementation of a display server and desktop environment being worked on by a lone dev as far as I know. Really impressive stuff, and in the author's own words: it is keyboard dominant, building a better and more efficient CLI than the flaccid terminal emulators of yore
[1] https://arcan-fe.com/ https://arcan-fe.com/
- crazyloglad 8y agolone dev here, and thanks for noticing - so this is where the traffic came from :-) The lack of attention (and releases, not representative of the half a million lines of C code and about 100k of Lua it entail) is mostly by design - to a large extent, I prefer obscurity to the point that productivity dips and lethargy sets in around release bursts, it opens up old mental war wounds from academia (also - getting a ph.d wasn't worth it). The posts etc. so far is much in the terms of documentation, not dissemination or politics. Coming soon: "Arcan vs. Xorg - far beyond feature parity" and "The Divergent Desktop"; that will show how these things fit together. The latter expands a lot on some of the ideas in this article.