Unix: March 2004 Archives

Sod that then (see 17/03/2004). I was actually going for the whole 'desktop management' thing, with the task bar, and the window manager, and the desktop, and the inter-application communication, and the web of Nyyyyyyloooooon.
Shouldn't have bothered. Most of this sort of functionality is already in Swing. JDesktopPane, anyone?
There was me wondering why no-one had thought of this before. And the cry was "OMG! ROTFLMAO! RTFAPI, Newbie scum!" Ah well. Some day I'll come up with a decent project. Cessation of respiration in anticipation of said event is (of course) ill advised.

I'm working on a file management system, written in Java (Swing). You know the sort of thing, icons, menu-bars, multiple windows, blah blah... The reason it's in Swing is so that it can be used on any system, and it should look the same.
Anyway, I'm looking for suggestions for useful features. Anything you've come across that you think should be included. The whole thing's going to be GPL'ed when it approaches usability, so it could be to your benefit.

Afternoon. I'm working on a new project: Go to Linux. Go directly to Linux. Do not pass goatse. Do not collect 200 pounds.

Changed 'uploadjam' on the scripts page to make it more understandable. The old version was a mess. This time it's just disorganised.

Woo! Yay! Hoopla! I've got some serious screen real-estate now. I've slapped an Apple Multiple Scan 15 monitor onto the second head of my GeForce FX. Now I can watch the telly on one, and code crap like this on the other.
Or HTML open on one monitor; rendered page open on the other.
Or audio visualisations on one; pr0n^H^H^H^H work on the other.
Also, there's something about watching Linux boot on two screens at once...

I've found a rant I wrote on LinuxQuestions about Linux, and why I use it.
The top of the thread is here, and my rant is here. I was drunk if I remember rightly, so it's quite impassioned.