[Mageia-dev] Litotas Desktop, a new Linux Desktop Environment (currently under Development)

Wed Mar 9 11:33:03 CET 2011

Hello Mageia Team,
+
+i've started work on a new Linux desktop, which primary goal will be to 
+be as easy to use as possible.
+
+Here a quote of my post on linuxquestions.org about my ideas of the desktop:
+"My first thinking is, to have a panel at the top which will look a 
+little bit like the one of Gnome3, but without the activities and a full 
+integration of the User-panel with the working chat client. For the 
+notifications of programs I want to implement a little tray-icon like 
+it's used in the kde4.5 desktop.
+At the bottom will be a macintosh like Panel where the user can place 
+his favorite programs and where a menu will be placed in.
+The primary goal of this desktop will be ease of use. The normal user 
+will just get a few possibilities to customize his desktop (as it is the 
+strategy of the Gnome-project) but with an option to get a full list of 
+options available for the advanced user."
+
+What's already done? I've started work on the top panel. A clock in the 
+middle with a calendar under it when a user clicks on the clock is 
+implemented. On the right side is a user menu from where the user can 
+reach the preferences of the system and where he will be able to close 
+his session or shutdown/restart the computer. It's just the work of 2 
+days for now, so there doesn't work much at the moment.
+What's missing in the top panel is a notification plugin and the system 
+tray.
+
+But why am I writing to your mailing list? I think that maybe someone of 
+you may be interested in helping me in finding new ideas or in 
+programming (c++ and qt4).
+
+At the moment I've planed to use Openbox as window manager.
+
+