kristianp 2 hours ago

The last commit for the dev branch was 3 days ago, so there is some development still happening. The last merge to main was March 2024, though.

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  • rowbin an hour ago

    I think they use master for releases only. Development branch is actively worked on and more than 100 commits ahead of master which is totally active. Last full release March 2024 is totally fine. People can always build from develop branch.

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cfn 2 hours ago

This actually looks quite good for a brand new development. I am big fan of vertical docks but that vertical time...

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  • sgc 2 hours ago

    Last update to master was last year, develop not much more going on. It looks like it was started 7 years ago.

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sam_lowry_ an hour ago

X or Wayland?

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  • shmerl an hour ago

    It seems to rely on compton so no Wayland I guess, which makes is an interesting toy, but not a serious option.

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    • andydotxyz 10 minutes ago

      Latest commits on develop replace Compton with a builtin compositor.

      Ready for a wayland support to begin after the next release!

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    • em-bee an hour ago

      it uses fyne.io, which supports wayland as of version 2.5.

      and it also says that it runs without those runtime dependencies, except that the experience will be degraded. so the question is how degraded, and what will it take to fix that?

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koeng 3 hours ago

Neat. I wonder what performance is like compared to normal desktop environments.

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  • gigatexal 2 hours ago

    Probably better than Gnome’s single threaded-ness.

    I bet it’s smooth given how concurrent friendly Go is with channels and go routines etc.

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    • SkiFire13 39 minutes ago

      Multithreading doesn't automatically make stuff smooth. It allows you to increase throughput, but it can also increase latency if don't have enough work or you split it too much.

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    • matttproud 2 hours ago

      Seriously. I don't know if folks remember this Java desktop research project from 25-some years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Looking_Glass. To say that it was slow was an understatement (it was a real PITA to get this installed and built at the time; I spent an afternoon in college doing that out of boredom).

      I imagine FyneDesk is plenty fine for what it is doing in comparison.

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    • munchlax 2 hours ago

      What are you guys doing with your desktop environment that you need it to be performant and multithreaded?

      Aren't all computers plenty fast enough now?

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      • Twirrim 40 minutes ago

        They should be, but with the speed and resources available on machines these days, people don't spend as much time optimising every little thing, and even make trade-offs, e.g. Gnome 3 desktop has the spidermonkey javascript engine in it, and an increasing numbers of components are using javascript.

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      • gigatexal 2 hours ago

        We are called power users ;-) we can do more than one thing or ten things at a time and want things to be responsive and fast and not drop frames and not crash the whole session when some plugin fails etc etc. you know, a well designed thing

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      • shmerl an hour ago

        Not necessarily the environment, but compositor itself must be fast. It shouldn't introduce any delays that would affect for instance input latency in its processing loop. Gamers would for sure complain.

        Someone could totally make it do everything in a single thread and not think about that, which would be pretty bad.

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        • winrid 42 minutes ago

          That doesn't require multi threading.

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      • wiseowise an hour ago

        “Don’t you guys have fast computers?”

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  • ikiris an hour ago

    Based on the name its probably based on Fyne... Last time I tried to use fyne was not great. They overly fixate on mobile first to the detriment of any other platform.

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    • andydotxyz 7 minutes ago

      Fyne has never been focused on mobile first - it is platform agnostic. Desktop performance is incredibly fast and mobile performance is nearly as good (Fyne v2.7.0 will deliver a huge speed boost this month). If you haven’t tried it in a couple of years I highly recommend you give it another go.

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