FyneDesk: A full desktop environment for Linux written in Go

Re:FyneDesk: A full desktop environment for Linux written in Go by pjmlp on Friday October 03, 2025 @03:07AM (#45459933)

For me it could be the foundation of a modern take on Oberon and Inferno linage of operating systems user experience, given how Go came to be, with mix of Limbo and Oberon-2.

Having the desktop environment, and given Go's stance on dynamic linking (and kind of abandoned plugin package), replace the dynamic behaviours in Oberon and Inferno commands and application extensions, with D-Bus or net/rpc.

However given the state of desktop fragmentation, most likely it wouldn't be worth the effort, only to get the feeling how it could be like.

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Re:FyneDesk: A full desktop environment for Linux written in Go by andydotxyz on Friday October 03, 2025 @03:23AM (#45460033)

My ambition is for it to be the best desktop for developers or people learning to code.

We are integrating an app editor into FyshOS which (although now renamed and at https://apptrix.ai) can be seen in an old video as a preview: https://youtu.be/XXmDmn-et4E?si=5n1Ao-V6dKurXzS6 (mostly from 15:30 in)

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Re:FyneDesk: A full desktop environment for Linux written in Go by pjmlp on Friday October 03, 2025 @05:24AM (#45460851)

Thanks for chiming in, and the link, now I will have to waste some weekends with Fyne Conf content. :)

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Re:FyneDesk: A full desktop environment for Linux written in Go by andydotxyz on Friday October 03, 2025 @09:21AM (#45462712)

Perfect :) there are so many great projects and that conference introduces some excellent looking apps.

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Re:FyneDesk: A full desktop environment for Linux written in Go by Rochus on Friday October 03, 2025 @04:35AM (#45460516)

> given Go's stance on dynamic linking (and kind of abandoned plugin package)

There is indeed a promising alternative to Go plugins which - very similar to the Oberon System - directly loads and runs the object files generated by the compiler: https://github.com/pkujhd/goloader.

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Re:FyneDesk: A full desktop environment for Linux written in Go by pjmlp on Friday October 03, 2025 @05:22AM (#45460838)

Thanks for the heads up, have to play around with this.

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