PlexyDesk got it's first public review with the title "Desktop is a mess ?... Create a new desktop with Widgets" from André Luiz Cavanha.

The English translation done via Google is here.

Today PlexyDesk got selected for Qt show case, read more about it from Qt-in Use.

PlexyDesk is now avilable for MacOS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard).

Please visit our Download section, to download the Binary for your Mac.

Enjoy it :)

• Compile mcompositor and install it.
• Run:

Xephyr :1 -nolisten tcp -host-cursor -screen 864x480x24 -dpi 96 -ac +extension Composite +extension XFIXES +extension DAMAGE +extension RENDER +extension GLX

• Run:

export DISPLAY=:1

• Run mcompositor by source_dir/mcompositor/mcompositor
• Run any other X applications you like, for instance xterm.

• Remove Icon Job from core.
• Unit tests for MIME type handling.
• Finish desktop layers.
• Desktop Layout handling.
• Desktop Session handling.

• Use Telepathy on Linux
• Use http://code.google.com/p/qxmpp/ on mac/windows (Please investigate if this works on macosx and windows)
• Other options : http://delta.affinix.com/iris/

Release Goal: create a usable desktop component.

• Documentation for the base components.
• Wallpaper chooser (with cover flow selector).
• Clean up widget api.
• Usable desktop icons and support folders.
• Social daemon and social services widgets.
• Clean up all unused code.
• There

A team of 10 from Sri Lankan Institute of Information Technology, joined PlexyDesk to do a social data gathering framework to PlexyDesk.

This will let widgets and the the Plexy file manager to interact with social data and manage them effortlessly.

It also means you can even use java script to access social data letting you create more useful widgets.