Hi All,
For fun I designed this sdl2 opengl app to mimic a Desktop. It uses hardware acceleration for for drawing and currently is tested with @X512 nebula driver, so your mileage may very depending on your system specs.
Plans are to hopefully…
Updates to hDesktop
Well this is surprising. I was shocked to see most of the app working with native Haiku mesa, so maybe with a few tweaks and the app could be used for everyone.
Hi All,
This is another update to hdesktop. Hope you enjoy it!
Todo/Wishful:
Download: hdesktop-1.0.5-1-x86_64.hpkg
Looking great! Keep it up!
Updates!
Extra
~/Dev/systray_test> ./tray_test
[Piggyback Engine] Connecting to public BDeskbar interface...
[Piggyback Engine] Scanning live system tracking ledger:
[ACTIVE] -> "NetworkStatus" is running.
[SDL Bridge] Initiating offscreen capture for: "NetworkStatus"
-> [SUCCESS] Live pixel array extracted out of system memory!
Memory Address Pointer: 0x680004d0
Line Stride (Bytes Per Row): 64
[SDL Integration Blueprint]:
1. SDL_CreateTexture(renderer, SDL_PIXELFORMAT_ARGB8888, SDL_TEXTUREACCESS_STREAMING, 16, 16);
2. SDL_UpdateTexture(yourTexture, NULL, rawPixelBytes, 64);
3. Render inside your main SDL dock draw loop!
[IDLE] -> "PowerStatus" is not running.
[ACTIVE] -> "ProcessController" is running.
[SDL Bridge] Initiating offscreen capture for: "ProcessController"
-> [SUCCESS] Live pixel array extracted out of system memory!
Memory Address Pointer: 0x680004d0
Line Stride (Bytes Per Row): 64
[SDL Integration Blueprint]:
1. SDL_CreateTexture(renderer, SDL_PIXELFORMAT_ARGB8888, SDL_TEXTUREACCESS_STREAMING, 16, 16);
2. SDL_UpdateTexture(yourTexture, NULL, rawPixelBytes, 64);
3. Render inside your main SDL dock draw loop!
[Test Main] Evaluation phase complete. Ready to port to primary SDL app.```Hi all,
This version is a really nice as it add a Tracker navigator when clicking the Tracker Icon. The code is straight out of the Haiku private source tree and functions flawlessly.
Also updated is the CPU graph. It has a nested menu just like Process Controller with similar features.
Also added was system tray icons which can be toggled in the config menu. The system tray icons don’t offer much functionality other than showing you what is in the System Tray with a few exceptions like Network icon and Media. Maybe one day that will change.
Well, as I see this iprovements it is really well fitted to a rather tapping interface and tablet type of interface - I mean the apps are represent by big icons and not really categorized in folders or any separations by categories, but flooding the app window.
Interesting, it will be very useful those HWs which has touchscreens and users who likes such interface. It will make for new generations - who accomodated to use rather touchscreens mostly - to use Haiku more easier. For them this approach is going to be more familiar.
@KitsunePrefecture That looks big because I have to set the resolution down on my monitor so the recording is smoothy. 
Also, you put apps earlier on the screen (not in this video), I have more replicants and Haiku default way mounted drive volumes, and some text files I want to reach directly - not even using ‘Recent files’ of Deskbar.
I have only 2 dir.s : one for debug reports, to quickly sort them out from the Desktop, and one remained for a TV series episodes that I had not removed yet.
I keep clean my desktop this way, and have infos keep on getting visible (on a not used workspace - fully).
ACK ! 
… but in case tapping the bigger is better !.. ;-))
So I just wanted to pinpoint that your development will be useful those who can/would install Haiku on a touchscreen capable device. As I know touchscreen can be usable - however I do not know exactly what can be the limitations regarding to their usage in Haiku.
Yes, earlier videos showed apps, directories and symlinks on my desktop.
The neat trick with my SDL hdesktop app is you can hide all these behind the SDL window, so the desktop looks extremely clean. I also have Deskbar set to autohide. If you have a lot of desktop stuff you can set their sizes to small so they all hide behind the SDL app.