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* Emacs as a desktop environment
@ 2011-05-25  1:05 Ted Zlatanov
  2011-05-25  7:31 ` joakim
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  0 siblings, 5 replies; 130+ messages in thread
From: Ted Zlatanov @ 2011-05-25  1:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: emacs-devel

I've been very frustrated lately with the memory and resource use of
gnome-panel, XFCE, and the new Unity UI in Ubuntu 11.04.  They use
multiple megabytes of memory for trivial things; they are slow, and they
make a machine with 3 GB of RAM feel slow just doing trivial things.

I think GNU Emacs, at least on GNU/Linux systems, can provide much of
the desktop environment functionality, so Emacs + a window manager like
XMonad is a full desktop experience:

- launch bar: a place to put icons associated with a program (simple toolbar)

- Applications, Places, and System menus: not sure how to connect those

- load indicators (CPU, memory, network load, etc.): can be done with SVG

- date, weather, market indicators: SVG and/or plain text

- workspace indicator: needs to talk to the window manager

- all file management: Dired

- icon dock for application and system indicators

I'd like to know how much of this can be achieved with today's GNU Emacs
plus the external packages (GNU ELPA, Tom Tromey's ELPA, EmacsWiki,
etc.) available, and how much will require new packages or changes to
Emacs' internals.

Thanks
Ted




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2011-05-25  1:05 Emacs as a desktop environment Ted Zlatanov
2011-05-25  7:31 ` joakim
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2011-05-25 10:28   ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-05-25 16:45     ` PJ Weisberg
2011-05-25 16:33 ` Ken Raeburn
2011-05-25 17:44   ` Tom Tromey
2011-05-25 19:26   ` Evans Winner
2011-05-25 21:58     ` Lennart Borgman
2011-05-25 22:15       ` David Kastrup
2011-05-25 22:27         ` Lennart Borgman
2011-05-25 23:04       ` Christophe Poncy
2011-05-26  0:18     ` Ken Raeburn
2011-05-26  0:37       ` Stefan Monnier
2011-05-26  5:45       ` Ulrich Mueller
2011-05-27  1:50         ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-05-28  0:09           ` Nix
2011-05-28 10:25             ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2011-05-28 10:44               ` Nix
2011-05-28 16:14                 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2011-05-30  8:34                   ` Julien Danjou
2011-05-25 22:08   ` Nix
2011-05-25 23:57     ` Ken Raeburn
2011-05-26  7:27       ` joakim
2011-05-26  8:33         ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-05-26 14:16         ` BBDB in the GNU ELPA (was: Emacs as a desktop environment) Ted Zlatanov
2011-05-26 23:12           ` BBDB in the GNU ELPA Glenn Morris
2011-05-27  3:48             ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-05-27 12:53             ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-05-28 14:57           ` Bernt Hansen
2011-05-30 12:57             ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-05-30 18:08               ` Glenn Morris
2011-05-30 19:27                 ` Štěpán Němec
2011-05-30 19:42                   ` Glenn Morris
2011-05-31  9:56                     ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-05-25 23:35   ` Emacs as a desktop environment Ted Zlatanov
2011-05-26  1:33     ` Tom Tromey
2011-05-26 15:36     ` PJ Weisberg
2011-05-26 16:29       ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-05-26  0:58 ` Eric M. Ludlam
2011-05-26 15:21   ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-05-26 16:38     ` joakim
2011-05-27 12:50       ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-05-28  8:10         ` joakim
2011-05-28 17:49           ` just-the-text Emacs frame (was: Emacs as a desktop environment) Ted Zlatanov
2011-05-28 20:01             ` Emacs24 Mobile (was: Re: just-the-text Emacs frame (was: Emacs as a desktop environment)) Mohsen BANAN
2011-05-29  1:44               ` Emacs24 Mobile Ted Zlatanov
2011-05-29  2:00                 ` T.V. Raman
2011-05-30 17:11                   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-05-28 20:18             ` just-the-text Emacs frame Thierry Volpiatto
2011-05-28 22:06               ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-05-29 10:12               ` joakim
2011-06-01 18:01             ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-06-02  2:43               ` Leo
2011-06-02  4:05                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-06-02 13:15                   ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-06-02 15:43                     ` Mohsen BANAN
2011-06-02 17:41                       ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-06-02 20:19                         ` Mohsen BANAN
2011-06-02 21:06                           ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-06-03 15:09                             ` Mohsen BANAN
2011-06-03 20:56                           ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-06-03 22:31                             ` Mohsen BANAN
2011-06-02 18:00                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-06-02 18:53                       ` GTK "decorated" and "deletable" properties (was: just-the-text Emacs frame) Ted Zlatanov
2011-06-02 20:49                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-06-02 20:59                           ` GTK "decorated" and "deletable" properties Ted Zlatanov
2011-06-03 15:21                             ` Jan Djärv
2011-06-03 16:29                               ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-06-03 16:39                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-06-03 17:39                                   ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-06-03 17:39                                 ` Jan Djärv
2011-06-03 18:09                                   ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-06-10 20:58                                   ` sending X client messages from Emacs (was: GTK "decorated" and "deletable" properties) Ted Zlatanov
2011-06-10 21:27                                     ` sending X client messages from Emacs Chong Yidong
2011-06-10 21:49                                       ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-06-03  2:40                     ` just-the-text Emacs frame Leo
2011-06-03 11:36                       ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-06-03 11:55                         ` Leo
2011-06-03 15:15                           ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-06-04  3:51                             ` Leo
2011-06-04  7:02                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-06-03  9:24                     ` Julien Danjou
2011-06-03 11:40                       ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-06-03 13:16                         ` Julien Danjou
2011-06-03 15:11                           ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-06-03 15:27                             ` Julien Danjou
2011-06-03 16:30                             ` Jan Djärv
2011-06-03 17:37                               ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-06-03 18:06                                 ` Jan Djärv
2011-06-03 19:08                                   ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-06-06  8:38                                   ` Julien Danjou
2011-06-06  9:23                                     ` Jan Djärv
2011-06-06  9:34                                       ` Jan Djärv
2011-06-06 10:00                                       ` Julien Danjou
2011-06-06 20:52                                         ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-06-07  8:25                                           ` Julien Danjou
2011-06-10 16:28                                             ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-06-10 17:35                                               ` T.V. Raman
2011-06-10 18:57                                               ` chad
2011-06-10 20:53                                                 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-06-11  8:04                                               ` Philipp Haselwarter
2011-06-11 10:45                                                 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-06-07 15:54                                           ` org-src.el begin_src/end_src fontification may have been broken recently (was: just-the-text Emacs frame) Ted Zlatanov
2011-06-07 18:02                                             ` org-src.el begin_src/end_src fontification may have been broken recently Stefan Monnier
2011-06-07 18:17                                               ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-06-07 18:05                                             ` Jambunathan K
2011-06-07 19:02                                               ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-06-10  0:20                                             ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-06-10 16:23                                               ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-06-10 19:51                                                 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-06-10 23:00                                                 ` Bastien
2011-06-11 10:41                                                   ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-06-11 10:53                                                     ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-06-11 18:16                                                 ` Julien Danjou
2011-06-12 22:24                                                   ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-06-13  8:05                                                     ` Štěpán Němec
2011-06-13 14:38                                                       ` Eric Schulte
2011-06-13 15:36                                                       ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-06-14  9:41                                                         ` Julien Danjou
2011-06-14 16:08                                                           ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-06-15  8:12                                                             ` Julien Danjou
2011-06-15 14:55                                                               ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-06-20 13:32                                                                 ` Bastien
2011-06-06  8:32                               ` just-the-text Emacs frame Julien Danjou
2011-06-06  9:22                                 ` Jan Djärv
2011-05-26 17:50     ` Emacs as a desktop environment Tom Tromey
2011-06-13 17:36 ` taking over global key events (X, NS, W32) (was: Emacs as a desktop environment) Ted Zlatanov
2011-06-13 18:41   ` taking over global key events (X, NS, W32) joakim
2011-06-13 19:22     ` Mathias Dahl
2011-06-13 20:34       ` Ted Zlatanov

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