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Re:IntelliJ IDEA and PyCharm Running on Haiku by kitsunesoba on Saturday January 12, 2019 @10:35PM (#18894882)
It’s crazy to me that there are no Linux DEs dedicated to creating a faithful reproduction of the Platinum era Mac desktop. One can configure XFCE or MATE to get something vaguely similar, but it’s really not the same.

Would like to try my hand at building something like that myself, but X on top of being phased out is a strange beast to learn and there’s practically no material on writing something for Wayland.

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Re:IntelliJ IDEA and PyCharm Running on Haiku by scroot on Saturday January 12, 2019 @10:46PM (#18894924)
There's one setup that I've used with XFCE before, but it's not perfect.

I've been working on and off implementing some Platinum stuff in Pharo's upcoming new graphics layer (called Bloc) and these have come out OK. That's where I'd really like to use it -- my whole desktop can be like Hypercard

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Re:IntelliJ IDEA and PyCharm Running on Haiku by rollcat on Sunday January 13, 2019 @04:58PM (#18898980)
> Would like to try my hand at building something like that myself, but X on top of being phased out is a strange beast to learn and there’s practically no material on writing something for Wayland.

You should look up the work of Sir_Cmpwn (aka Drew DeVault), specifically the wlroots project and his excellent writeup: https://drewdevault.com/2018/07/29/Wayland-shells.html

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