Étoilé: Open-Source User Environment for Collaborative Computing
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Summary
Étoilé is an open-source GNUstep-based user environment designed to create a more intuitive computing experience focused on creation, collaboration, and learning. It eliminates traditional implementation details like files and processes, instead offering revision history for all objects, real-time collaboration on any document type, customizable workflows through Services, and a system that aligns with users' mental models of how computers should work.
Key quotes
· 5 pulledOur goal is to create a user environment designed from the ground up around the things people do with computers: create, collaborate, and learn.
Without implementation details like files and operating-system processes polluting the computer's UI
have revision history for all objects in the system
collaborate with other people on any type of document (text, drawing, code, etc.)
use a system that is closer to their mental model of how computers should work
Étoilé is an innovative GNUstep based user environment built from the ground up on highly modular and light components with project and document orientation in mind.
