Étoilé
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| Étoilé | |
| Image:Etoilelogo.gif | |
 Étoilé CVS screenshot showing Azalea plus the MenuServer and the dock, with the Nesedah theme. |
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| Developer: | Étoilé Developers |
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| Latest release: | 0.1 / 22 February 2006 |
| OS: | Cross-platform |
| Use: | Desktop environment |
| License: | GPL/LGPL |
| Website: | http://www.etoile-project.org/ |
Étoilé intends to be an innovative GNUstep based desktop environment built from the ground up on highly modular and light components with project and document orientation in mind, in order to allow users to create their own workflow by reshaping or recombining provided Services (aka Applications), Components, etc... Flexibility and modularity on both user interface and code level should allow it to be scaled from PDA to computer environment.
The Étoilé project's goals are:
- Light, focused applications, cooperating together to provide a rich user experience, using GNUstep services and its own Services model.
- Fast, simple data sharing between tasks and documents without involving lot of context switches (between applications, windows, selection...).
- Facility provided by default to composite, layout unrelated elements in first-class objects like documents, folders, etc...
- Workflow based on project inspired management (versioning, indexing, sharing...).
- Easy communication/collaboration among users, where users are first-class objects in the environment.
- Assistant technology similar to the Newton's approach.
It works in cooperation with GNUstep project and eventually Backbone project (http://www.nongnu.org/backbone/). It provides frameworks, UI guidelines and documentation to permit GNUstep developers to easily develop Étoilé compliant applications (called Services).
