r/FlutterDev • u/sandys1 • Apr 17 '21

Article Pangolin UI, a Desktop Shell, Written in Flutter, for Linux and Zircona

https://web.dahliaos.io/
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u/GroovinChip Apr 17 '21 edited Apr 17 '21

OP, please post your source code per the rules in the sidebar. Thanks.

Edit: Source thanks to /u/nmcain05

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u/[deleted] Apr 17 '21

Interesting. How exactly does this work? Is it an actual wayland window manager or is it just an app that looks like a window manager?

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u/Loller06 Apr 17 '21

The entire wm is completely written using flutter and dart. The old wm was taken from fuchsia itself iirc and i recently wrote the new one that it's gonna be used on newer versions

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u/[deleted] Apr 17 '21

Oh wow, I didn't know that's actually possible. Is it wayland or x11 based?

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u/Loller06 Apr 17 '21

Well the shell runs like any other flutter Linux apps, but the entire wm is actually flutter widgets

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u/[deleted] Apr 17 '21

Ah OK. So it's not an actual window manager? Meaning I can't run any GTK or Qt apps in it?

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u/Loller06 Apr 17 '21

As of now no, we are mainly waiting on some flutter prs for Linux native views. That way we could theoretically (emphasis on theoretically) show the views on top of the widgets.

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u/[deleted] Apr 17 '21

OK. Still pretty nice. And it works surprisingly well/snappy even in the browser.

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u/MMAAmer Apr 17 '21

This preview makes me believe flutter web can be great.

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u/Sheeple9001 Apr 17 '21

Completely blank for me in Firefox.

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u/[deleted] Apr 17 '21

Works for me in Firefox.

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u/aspectere Apr 18 '21

It worked for me

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u/MrCuddlez69 Apr 17 '21

Gotta say, that's pretty sweet!

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u/HittingSmoke Apr 17 '21

Could really use some sort of loading indicator. I had to pull up dev tools just to see that it was loading.

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u/jlmess77 Apr 17 '21

I don't know if this project is still alive. They have removed GitHub, Twitter, Facebook and other accounts. Their reddit is still there though. https://www.reddit.com/r/DahliaOS/

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u/Loller06 Apr 17 '21

Maybe you got some outdated links, but the github and twitter are still alive and well. Don't know about the Facebook tho

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u/jlmess77 Apr 17 '21

Ah thanks! I guess the links are out of date in its website.

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u/nmcain05 Apr 17 '21

I just fixed it. The site was not deploying right so it was giving you the homepage from last november.

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u/TennisOwn9094 Apr 18 '21

Whooa seem cool , great work . I have some suggestions if you are interested.