Emerge Desktop

Feature Requests Now Taken & Theme Uploads

Steve B — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 02:07:32 +0000

For those of you that haven’t had a good look around the site we have a new menu item called “Feature Requests”, it allows you to suggest a feature request and have all the eD users comment or vote on the idea, that in turn will let us as a community see what we are looking for from this fantastic Desktop replacement.

Also just a reminder if you have a theme you have built for eD, share it around and let others use it.We have an area for you to upload a zipped up copy of your theme and also allows you to upload a screen shot so we can preview the new “look” before installing it. There is space to tell us your Theme Name and a spot to allow you to describe your theme.

Stable Release 6.1.3

MeToo — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 10:49:35 +0000

The team at Emerge Desktop is proud to give you the latest stable release ~ 6.1.3. It is recommended that you do update to this version as there have been important fixes which are listed here .

Stable Release 6.1.2

Steve B — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 23:59:59 +0000

The team at Emerge Desktop is proud to give you the latest stable release ~ 6.1.2. It is recommended that you do update to this version as there have been many fixes,changes and New features which are listed here .

Stable release 6.1.1

Steve B — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 05:06:18 +0000

The team at Emerge Desktop is proud to give you the latest stable release ~ 6.1.1. It is recommended that you do update to this version as there have been many fixes,changes and New features which are listed here .

Emerge Desktop

Steve B — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 03:20:46 +0000

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Emerge Desktop is a replacement windows “shell” (the desktop environment normally provided by Windows Explorer) for Windows XP and above. In order to replace Windows Explorer as a shell, it provides a system tray (the area that collects the icons collected at the lower right corner in Explorer), called emergeTray. It will also provide access to the users programs (normally accessed with the windows “start” button) via a right-click on the desktop, via emergeCore.

Emerge Desktop is implemented with MinGW-w64, an OpenSource implementation of the GNU C compiler and utilities. Up to this point, closed source commercial projects have mainly been used (Microsoft Visual C++, Borland Delphi) to develop alternate shells as they use proprietary Microsoft API features. With Microsoft releasing more detailed information about these API calls, the MinGW win32api is now quite complete. Additionally, several web sites on the internet have started to include documentation and code that illustrate how to access and use these functions.

Emerge Desktop has an open API, which allows for applets to be coded with compilers other than MinGW if someone wishes to do so.

Emerge Desktop is written in C++ and is licensed as OpenSource (under the GPL). All the source is available in Mercurial at Sourceforge. Emerge Desktop can be developed using Code::Blocks, which is an IDEs for MinGW.

From a design point of view, Emerge Desktop applets are capable of being run as both standalone as well as being integrated. In order for Emerge Desktop applets to communicate with each other, emergeCore must be running. Without emergeCore, each applet will run independently (if, for example, you wish to use them in conjunction with another desktop shell).

If you want to participate in this project there are forums and an irc channel (#emergedesktop) on FreeNode. Please feel free to try Emerge Desktop, and provide feedback!