Emerge Desktop

Emerge Desktop is a replacement windows "shell" (the desktop environment normally provided by Windows Explorer) for Windows 2000 and above. In order to replace Windows Explorer as a shell, it provides a system tray, called emergeTray. It will also provide access to the users programs via a right-click on the desktop, via emergeCore. Emerge Desktop is implemented with MinGW which is 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. 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++, primarily developed with MinGW and is licensed as OpenSource (under the GPL). All the source is available in Subversion at Sourceforge. Emerge Desktop can be developed using Code::Blocks, an IDE for MinGW.

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  thr33 7 months ago
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  Excellent shell - exactly what I was looking for to add the finishing touches to the rest of the customisations that I've made.

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  somma 10 months ago

  I use it in my notebook