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I'm now aiming at producing a usable, useful, completed
application rather than a fancy one. That means a lot of fancy features
are to be postponed. Many months of work in these areas are giving too
steady a progress. No more window dragging for now (the OSes do not
cleanly support this, I should take the hint already). That stuff is
gonna have to wait for virtual driver implementations. Help is welcome!
Want to get this done.
WTF is "Straddle", anyway?
Straddle is a workspace clustering application (read:
clustering, not cluttering). So you can take, say, 9 computers and wire
them into a single 3-by-3 desktop. Even if they run different operating
systems. Straddle will
be released on OSX/Win/Linux as freeware and/or shareware; at least
some versions
will be free (beer at first). Straddle is not an X11 server or VNC hack.
I aim to significantly improve my experience of working with
many
different boxes on my desk, and maybe create something useful for
others. Until it is released however, there is much long, tough work to
be done. I'll post more as versions tick by :)
Versions numbers are a decimalised reflection of progress between 0.0.0
and
1.0.0 (a = alpha, b = public beta test). Do not expect interesting
things to
happen on this site until version 0.6a. Then of course, don't hold your
breath, because the project still runs a risk of failure (as projects
do).
Milestones (OSX/WinXP/Linux):
- 0.4.0a -
concept
demo
- 0.5.0a - half way mark
- 0.5.5a - final features for 1.0 confirmed, specs posted
- 0.6.0b - beta test
- 0.8.0b - beta test
- 0.9.9rc - release candidate
- 1.0.0 - first public release
Features in Development:
- Mouse (works)
- Copyboard (somewhat works)
- Keyboard (works, adding custom keymaps)
- Networking (works)
- Screenshots (not implemented)
- Graphics (suspended)
- Wormholes (soon to be added)
- Sounds (active research)
- UI (active development)
- [classified: 'dragoon'] (active research)
- [classified: 'locket'] (suspended)
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