I think it's better to modify and improve another GUI, rather than trying
to write your own. For example, you might pick up OpenGEM and improve that.
Perhaps update the fonts, include support for different fonts, clean up the
icons, add support for "theming" or other visual customization, etc
jh
On Monday, April 22, 2013, Chris Evans wrote:
> I would make a GUI vga desktop for freedos buti don't know ow to implement
> fonts in a vga mode
>
> -Chris
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>
>
> On Monday, April 22, 2013, Jim Hall wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Wednesday, April 17, 2013, dos386 wrote:
>>
>>> > I found that there are almost no desktop GUIs being developed
>>>
>>> There used to be and are many GUI's ... just most of them
>>> are abandoned as buggy and IIRC Jim Hall removed them all
>>> from FreeDOS list some time ago.
>>>
>>> http://www.freedos.org/software/?cat=gui {{deleted}}
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a0503736/php/drdoswiki/index.php?n=Main.Links#toc4
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> There used to be a ton of GUIs out there. It seemed for a time that
>> everyone's pet project was some sort of GUI for FreeDOS. Often, a developer
>> would start a project, bring it to a "proof of concept" stage, then it
>> would go stale as the developer moved on to other things. So I stopped
>> tracking them on the FreeDOS website, but we did mirror those projects that
>> continued to make releases.
>>
>> jh
>>
>
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