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Graphical Desktop Environments: GEM, Plasma/KDE, and GNOME Calendar
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Hackaday ☛ Sick Of Wayland Vs. Xorg? How About GEM?
Between lawsuits from Apple, and Microsoft being Microsoft, Digital Research’s GEM desktop for DOS never really had a chance. It did have another life on Atari home computers, but it’s the DOS version that provided the code for [Tomaz Stih]’s Linux port of the GEM graphical desktop — which isn’t a WM or DE for X or Wayland, for the record. It is entirely it’s own graphical display that will live in the framebuffer of a minimal Linux installation.
[Thomaz] is leveraging DR’s original code — or at least what started as DR’s code before a series of acquisitions and open sourcing — via OpenGEM and FreeGEM.
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K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt
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Updates for Plasma Software Engineer & plasma-keyboard
Its been a minute since my last posts when I went over plasma-keyboard and its new diacritics feature, and the mega-sprint in Graz.
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GNOME Desktop/GTK
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Georges Basile Stavracas Neto ☛ Georges Basile Stavracas Neto: What’s New in Calendar 51: Prologue
It’s been a long time since I last posted anything here, huh.
Well, a few hours ago I was preparing the release notes for the next release of GNOME Calendar. It is yet to be reviewed, but this is how it reads at the time I write this blog post: [...]
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More on GEM:
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Digital Research's GEM opens a new window on Linux
Digital Research's GEM was one of the earliest graphical environments for PC compatibles, and an inspired hack has now resurrected it on Linux.
GEM for Linux is a port of the Atari ST's graphical desktop, created by prolific Slovenian developer Tomaž Štih.
Applications share a display server that can output directly through Linux's framebuffer or display the desktop in a window using Štih's SDL2-based Rasta framebuffer emulator.