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After 1 YEAR of hard work my NEW Ultimate Web Desktop Environment is ready for launch!!!!! 🎉🎉

Dustin Brett on January 02, 2022

LIVE LINK: https://dustinbrett.com/ Hey everyone, thanks for checking out my article on my passion project for the last year (and several years pr...

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Joe Pea • May 18

Playing Quake Arena was so fun!

Ben Halpern • Jan 2 '22

Congrats!

Dustin Brett • Jan 2 '22

Thank you!

Cedric Matthew Verdida • Jan 4 '22

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Dustin Brett • Jan 6 '22

Nice! Looks good. I love the idea of web workers and iframes actually in certain cases. I have an iframe for the Browser app and a worker for the clock, but I don't use workers as much as I would like. I will keep improving on this hopefully.

rxliuli • Jan 6 '22

In fact, this is mainly for the convenience of third-party developers and security considerations, because it is obviously impossible to require all application developers to use the same technology stack, and it is impossible to guarantee that third-party code can run on the same thread as the system without happening. Any problems (even malicious code). I mainly draw on the existing web-based plug-in systems such as vscode for web, figma, applets, electron, etc. They all use a multi-threaded model and provide all system APIs to the main thread.

rxliuli • Jan 6 '22

I wrote an article before about the js sandbox attempt. At present, I have established an EventEmitter-based sandbox interface, and implemented two runtime sandboxes, web worker and quickjs virtual machine, and then implemented the system API and Added various applications to enrich the system.

blog.rxliuli.com/p/bafce41b0e68409...

rxliuli • Jan 6 '22

Another key point of using multi-threading is performance. We may have some large applications, such as maps or 3D content. If multi-threading is not used, it is very difficult to run all functions normally without stalling. . .

Dustin Brett • Jan 6 '22

Ya I also have 3rd party app support on my list of to do's. I was thinking of a type of controlled iframe with an api using post messages or a broadcast channel or something. It's fun stuff anyway. I tried to keep most of the code self contained for the existing apps.

Dustin Brett • Jan 6 '22

Thanks! I will check this out. Performance is my focus for 2022 in regards to my app improvements.

Anthony • Jan 9 '22

Very cool!
Would theming this be possible? Is it simply done with CSS? If so, I'm interested in doing a mac theme.

Dustin Brett • Jan 9 '22

Thanks! Ya you could totally theme it! I have a theme called defaultTheme but you could make another one with your own sizes/colors/etc. I think it would require some adjustment and moving things into the theme that I was too lazy to do, but in general it was built to support theming. I'd say 75% of the sizes/colors are centralized in one folder, the rest is inside Styled Components closer to their usage, but eventually it should all be extracted into the theme.

github.com/DustinBrett/daedalOS/tr...

Anthony • Jan 9 '22

Nice! What if I wanted to go beyond applying theming (colors, etc) and wanted to make it more of a Mac clone? Because theming wouldn't be enough, i.e, the MS start button doesn't really align with anything Mac related; re-positioning the clock; etc.

Dustin Brett • Jan 9 '22

Ya that's totally possible! You could remove the Taskbar component from the main index file (github.com/DustinBrett/daedalOS/bl...) and then make your own desktop environment components to work with existing hooks/contexts.