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Philosophy and goals of the 'twin' project:
Twin is intended to be a text mode window environment. It brings mouse
support, multiple indipendent windows, window manager, terminal emulator, and
server for remote applications, all in a text mode display.
All base features are already implemented, but there is much room for
expansion. Planned features are:
* A whole desktop environment, all running in text mode. This includes:
* A toolkit library with user configurable look-n-feel and rich widget
set (already in progress).
* Programs for all tasks a user could perform while using a text display.
Image viewers are probably ruled out (but see aalib), yet most other
programs are possible: editor, taskbar, file manager, web browser, mail
client, frontend to existing tty-based programs (gdb comes to mind).
In most cases, existing programs can be used just adding small changes
to better exploit 'twin' features, or even without modifications:
editor: emacs & clones, vi & clones
file manager: midnight commander
web browser: links
mail clients: pine, mutt, ...
so the work is infinitely smaller than say, writing KDE or GNOME from
scratch.
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