Sebb

Okay so i uploaded a more recent version of the desktop, and it works great…except for the permission errors, but il fix them when i get home from work today, and then figure out where to go from there.

Here is a list of changes:

• Bigger icons. The icons where simply to small
• filesurfaces. The main code that handles files in folders etc has been considerable improvd in this version making them more extensible and with faster loading times.
• widget’s there now is a widget view avaiable by pressing ctrl+q, there’s no widgets there at the moment i will add some demo widgets soon.
• cleaned the code up and extended the std object making applications and extensions easier
• simple youtube application added, add a link to a youtube movie and save a list of them for later watching, it still in alfa tho, and not much functionality added yet
• new image displayer, all images are now displayed in flash with fullscreen functionality, minislides, autoslide etc.
• create file, by rightclicking file surface background and selecting “create file”
• rename file, by rightcliking file and selecting “rename”

List of known bugs:

• sometimes rightclick menu disapears, still working om reprodusing error
• all shortcuts currently show as youtube icons
• windows becomes draggable by dragginf on their content after having dragged the window in it’s handlebar
• permission error’s on production server
• the user is not logged out of notifed if session ends, the desktop simply bugs out denying directory listings etc

There problaly more bugs but these are those i can think up right now.

Following here is a draft of upcoming features:

• arrange file files in folder by name, creation date etc
• rightclick file and download it to desktop
• move files around the desktop to costum positions, with or without grid support
• rss feed application and widget
• tag support
• search for files, by tag, name, type etc
• simple excel like application that reads/creates csv files(Comma sepperated values)
• improvement’s to rich text editor
• simple text editor, similar to fx notepad on windows.
• ftp folders/application, hook up to a ftp to extend diskspace or simply use a webdesk util to edit a file there

i have more idea’s for thing’s that i will add, but for now these seems like the essentials, im thinking of implementing other applications for developement use like some kinda  implemetation of a SVN client or a ssh terminal  if it isnt too time consuming to create.

Also having seen google is creating a canvas based texteditor for code editing, im gonne research into if i can implement it to the desktop, im also gonne create a easy way to put the system in and out of developement mode… and then at some point write som docs as to how you can write applications and extensions.

But the latter things here not on the list is far off in time, base functionalety need’s to be proper established before i can/will go any deeper into the possibilities of the webdesk.