UDE

Unix Desktop Environment

ude

the ultimate desktop experience

Some kind of a preview - or more a dream?

by Jan Rocho and Christian Ruppert

1 Motivation - Yet another Window Manager?

Right - there is quite a wide variety of window managers for X11-Unix machines, among them very good ones like fvwm and very comfortable and beautiful ones like kwm/kde. So why the f**k another WM? Well, we got our reasons (which hopefully soon will also be yours):

Finally you should notice that this project was not started to dismiss or imitate KDE. We both appreciate what all the people are doing, not only for a group of freaks but also for the whole idea of Linux as well as the (very big and thank god in the moment very fast growing) group of Linux beginners and people who changed from Windows. Probably without KDE this project would not exist at all and I am planning to keep up a certain compatibility between KDE and ude. For example will it be possible to run all KDE applications under (later versions of) ude. Of course for example the colour configuration etc. will also be supported. We just didn't like some features of KDE, and we want to create a window manager which is not so much conventional but productive. In my opinion uwm will not be so much a window manager for people used to and liking the 'Windows' look and feel but more for everybody who doesn't like this very much.

ude - get used to it...

2 uwm and ugs - the basic elements of ude

2.1 uwm - the window manager

ude's window manager will be called uwm, the ultimate window manager. It will break with most common look and feels and is palled to be at least as configurable as kde or windows. Of course, if we find some good designers, we will a.so try to make it as colourful and pretty as the two of them but top priority is a usable and practical high performance window manager with the following characteristics:

2.2 ugs - the 'graphical shell' of ude

I just called the ude file manager ugs - the ultimate graphical shell but the implementation of this part has not started yet (hohoho, programmers!), and here are some Ideas I have considering this which should explain the name graphical shell: