NOTE: I am currently in the process of redoing the ENTIRE backend in lisp, which would allow for the dynamic generation of yuck, easy tab dragging, and less of a reliance on the
/tmpdirectory. I will update the documentation to reflect these changes when they are made.
BINGLE (Badly INtegrated Graphical Linux Environment) is less of a legitimate desktop environment and more of an experiment. It is written to utilize Elkowar's Wacky Widgets, and is integrated with the system through a bunch of janky scripts.
It takes a unique approach to its UI, taking inspiration from the AvdanOS concept video, as well as from the HaikuOS window manager, with a few of my own twists:
- Tabs can be dragged to the taskbar to turn them into inline widgets.
- Tabs can be dragged to the desktop to make widgets there
- Tabs containing different applications can share a window
- The desktop, being defined with yuck, can be replaced with other widgets. For example, it could be made to move out of the way to reveal user-made content, such as a menu, system information, really anything that can be made with EWW can be substituted in for anything else.
- context menus can use arbitrary yuck in their options, such as an inline color picker for example.
Things BINGLE cannot do:
- Support a native web browser. EWW doesn't have a way to render HTML. If anyone knows of a way to use GTK to render a webpage that a browser can interact with, please tell me.
- Act as a compositor. Compositing is usually handled by a window manager. However, Imagemagick can be added to the project to fake things like blur, though doing so in real time is not feasable for all machines.
The documentation is still very much a work in progress. There are, however, brief explanatory files placed in their relevant directories, as well as a copious amounts of comments in the code. Documentation will be consolidated in the near future.
As of this writing, there are no plans to create a script that will install all the dependencies. This task is left to the user, but guidance will be provided if necessary.
- xdotool (gets mouse cursor & screen information on systems that use X11.)
- imagemagick (for wallpaper blurring)
- fswatch 1.17.1 (tracks config file changes)
Each directory will have a README file explaining its purpose and contents.
Contains files used to define the behavior of the system. Work is being done to create a central config file for the entire system, along with a handler function that can pull from it.
contains various native BINGLE applications. WIP.
Contains assets used by the system, such as the wallpapers, the BINGLE icon, and others.
Contains helpful scripts and utilities.
Contains stylesheets, themes, and useful scss functions.
Contains yuck to render the UI and applications.
- window content should use a literal that pulls from the json of the active tab, so that app yuck and data can all be transferred at once.