A potato

A desktop environment, written in Uxntal.

Build

You must have an Uxntal assembler.

uxnasm src/potato.tal bin/potato.rom

If do not wish to assemble it yourself, you can download potato.rom.

Run

You must have a Varvara emulator.

uxnemu bin/potato.rom

Manual

Since this is designed to be used principally on a handheld devices without a window manager, the controls are aimed at d-pad centric. The pattern here is using the B button to handle all window operations, and leave the A button to the applications. Alternatively, you can open a file with mouse2.

• B+Up, expand a window
• B+Down, tab a window
• B+Right, open a window
• B+Left, close a window

Notes

• ---- name.txt is a filepath
• name.txt is a filename
• desktop/id is an icon
• desktop/file is a file

TODO

• Change cursor icon on alt mod for drag.
• Audio player.
• Terminal.
• Piano.
• Documentation.
• Basic text viewer/editor?
  • Scrollbar
• Clock widget
• Hex editor
• Desktop
  • Display current location
• Tile
  • Support ICN/CHR mode switching
• Screensaver?
• Swatch should show icon over selection
• Catch maximum number of windows
• Windows names shouldn't leave window bar bounds
• Throw error when dir is longer than $400
• Window resize

Support

• theme
• snarf