On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Koh Choon Lin <2choon...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi > > On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 11:19 AM, Marco Achury <marcoach...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> XAppeal is a proprietary X11 server for MS-DOS based on XFree86. The web >> used to be http://www.xtreme.it/pub/xappeal/ but now appear to be death now. > > If someone is willing to start a free as in freedom graphical > interface for FreeDOS, I am ready to contribute resources and money to > the project. > >
I'd love to have you contribute to a GUI project. There have been several. The one with the longest history is OpenGEM, but the web site is now idle (http://gem.shaneland.co.uk/). The OpenGEM6 pre-release is the last we heard of this project, in 2006 (http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/gui/opengem/6/). Another promising GUI was SEAL, which seems to have also gone idle long before GEM. As a result, I kind of pulled back from any particular GUI, and focused on the command line experience. But I would really like to see a nice GUI for FreeDOS. An X Windows implementation would be very interesting, for example. I encourage you to look around for what's there, and see if you can move any of them forward. OpenGEM shows a lot of promise, but the graphics are dated and could use a refresh. Since it's GNU GPL, I imagine you could borrow from another GPL'd desktop environment, such as GNOME. -jh ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Write once. Port to many. Get the SDK and tools to simplify cross-platform app development. Create new or port existing apps to sell to consumers worldwide. Explore the Intel AppUpSM program developer opportunity. appdeveloper.intel.com/join http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-appdev _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
