g.ho.st

[The mysterious Mr. 4m]

your thoughts on G.ho.st: http://g.ho.st

[Psychcf]

yuck, somebody redo this in javascript, then open source it!

oh wait, I did!

http://desktop.psychdesigns.net/

yes, it may look bad, but if you checkout the SVN version, we're really doing well... The apps though are outdated, so most of them don't work in the SVN version. We decided to put this off until the actual desktop development is finished.

now... about this...

I think the menu is terribly sorted, I can't seem to find out how to launch apps. I find the UI a tad sluggish, but then again, I'm on my crappy laptop right now. I saw something about them opening up their apis, that may end up not being so popular since not to many people I know are hardcore actionscript developers. Me and another guy have been working on psych desktop since september 06 I believe. I'm not sure when they started, or how many people are working on it, but archive.org has a cache in january of 07, which means they had some time before hand to work on it, so I suppose they started around the same time we did.

this doesn't involve the site at all but the testimonials at the bottom of this page are extremely irritating and you can tell they were made up: http://g.ho.st/home/vertualcomp.jsp

I think that web desktops in general could be so much more then what stuff like this is, and that's one of the reasons why I started the Psych Desktop project. We will be looking to actually make a set of server administrative apps for it after the release, including a nexuiz server manager

[The mysterious Mr. 4m]

lol!

you should just put something together to show off. the Psych Desktop also works in Opera which is not true for G.ho.st, so i strongly believe in you!

i believe this is the future of computers; no more OS, just the hardware and the "Internet". i think G.ho.st is a good way to spark the interest of the general public.

[Psychcf]

well, there is a problem. javascript is not very fast, and among other things it's limited. There is no threading yet, only event based, but, in javascript 1.7 (at the time of writing is only supported by firefox 2.0) there is a way you can get threading.

I did have an IDE somewhat working, but we switched over to dojo 0.9, and I still have to port that. Also, I completely re-did the window manager, so it will have effects turned on if you want them. pretty much everything vista has minus the 3D stuff.

[Psychcf]

when my machine is on you can check out the latest rev at:

http://server.psychdesigns.net:8080/Psy ... top/trunk/

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username: user
password: user