[Haskell-cafe] Re: Manatee - The Haskell/Gtk+ Integrated Live
Environment first version release!
David Leimbach
leimy2k at gmail.com
Fri Nov 12 10:13:15 EST 2010
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 9:07 PM, Andy Stewart <lazycat.manatee at gmail.com>wrote:
> David Leimbach <leimy2k at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Wow!
> >
> > Is this just for Linux or is anyone able to run it on Mac OS X?
> I don't know whether can work on Mac.
>
> I design it for Linux.
>
>
Fair enough, it's a great accomplishment all the same :-).
Dave
> -- Andy
>
> >
> > Dave
> >
> > On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 7:51 PM, Andy Stewart <lazycat.manatee at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > My project want to provide a fact:
> >
> > Haskell not just can do GUI environment, and can do better!
> >
> > Gtk2hs + Haskell Threads is awesome!
> >
> > Below is source code lines of Manatee:
> >
> > All : 21651
> >
> > Core and toolkit : 7047
> > Daemon and Window Manager : 3656
> > Multi-Threads input framework: 2537
> > Browser : 488
> > Editor : 813
> > File manager : 774
> > Image viewer : 565
> > IRC client : 2212
> > Multimedia player : 1358
> > PDF viewer : 457
> > Process Manager : 761
> > RSS/Atom reader : 893
> >
> > -- Andy
> >
> > Andy Stewart <lazycat.manatee at gmail.com> writes:
> >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I am proud to announce the release my gtk2hs project : Manatee -
> The Haskell/Gtk+ Integrated
> > Live
> > > Environment
> > >
> > > http://hackage.haskell.org/package/manatee
> > >
> > > Screenshots at : http:goo.gl/MkVw
> > > Code at https://patch-tag.com/r/AndyStewart/ beginning with
> manatee-*
> > >
> > > Manatee is Haskell integrated environment written in Haskell.
> > >
> > > The goal of the Manatee project is to provide a fast, safe and
> flexible
> > > integrated environment for haskell hacking.
> > >
> > > You can consider it is new environment mix Gnome and Emacs.
> > > Like Gnome to provide friendly graphics interface and work
> efficient like Emacs.
> > >
> > > Manatee use multi-processes framework, any sub-module running in
> separate process to protected
> > core
> > > won't crash. So it
> > > minimize your losses when some unexpected exception throw in
> extension.
> > >
> > > Now i have implement below sub-modules in Manatee:
> > >
> > > Editor
> > > Webkit Browser
> > > File Manager
> > > Image Viewer
> > > IRC Client
> > > Multimedia Player
> > > PDF Viewer
> > > Process Manager
> > > RSS/Atom reader
> > >
> > >>From some friends feedback, manatee can't work in XMonad, i will
> fix it soon.
> > > You can play it in Gnome. Enjoy! :)
> > >
> > > Below are steps to build Manatee:
> > >
> > > 1) Install C library: In Debian use below command:
> > >
> > > sudo aptitude install libgtksourceview2.0-dev libgconf2-dev
> libwebkit-dev
> > libcurl4-openssl-dev
> > > libgtkimageview-dev libpoppler-glib-dev poppler-data libtagc0-dev
> -y
> > >
> > > 2) Install Gtk2hs:
> > >
> > > cabal install gtk2hs-buildtools gtk
> > >
> > > And make sure HOME.cabalbin/ in your PATH.
> > >
> > > 3) Install Manatee:
> > >
> > > cabal install manatee-core manatee-anything manatee-browser
> manatee-editor
> > manatee-filemanager
> > > manatee-imageviewer manatee-ircclient manatee-mplayer
> manatee-pdfviewer manatee-processmanager
> > > manatee-reader manatee
> > >
> > > That's all, then type command manatee to play it! :)
> > >
> > > "manatee-core" "manatee-anything" "manatee" are core packages, must
> be
> > > install, other extension package you can choose you want.
> > >
> > > Example, if you not install manatee-imageviewer, when you open
> Image
> > > file, manatee will call default image-viewer in your system
> instead.
> > >
> > > Manatee will show you "search interface" when you startup it.
> > > You can type some filepath or url to open it,
> > > example, you can type Haskell file to open in editor,
> > > and type url to open in browser.
> > >
> > > Below are quick play keys:
> > >
> > > "F2" ==> startProcessManager
> > > "F3" ==> startFeedReader
> > > "F4" ==> startFileManager
> > > "F5" ==> startBrowser
> > > "F6" ==> loginIrcDefaultChannel
> > > "F7" ==> startIrc
> > >
> > > Manatee project still in early develop stage, just core framework
> > > finish, many details still not perfect.
> > >
> > > But i think it's good start to build Real-World application in
> Haskell.
> > >
> > > Below are high task in my TODO list:
> > >
> > > Perfect current sub-module:
> > > IDE features, code completion
> > > browser JavaScript framework
> > > graphics custom system
> > > etc.
> > >
> > > Terminal emulator:
> > > support MVC design, not like VTE widget
> > >
> > > Mail-client
> > >
> > > BT-Client
> > >
> > > Proxy bridge:
> > > to build uniform proxy interface to fighting GFW!!!
> > >
> > > Jabbar client:
> > > video support etc.
> > >
> > > Spell checker
> > >
> > > CHM viewer
> > >
> > > DVI viewer
> > >
> > > LaTex editor
> > >
> > > PS viewer
> > >
> > > Multi-thread download manager
> > >
> > > Org-Mode : http://orgmode.org/
> > >
> > > Twitter client
> > >
> > > Network toolkit:
> > > sniffer etc.
> > >
> > > Multi-Language translater
> > > offline support
> > >
> > > Too many ideas lying in my TODO list....
> > >
> > > Any suggestion and contribution are welcome! :)
> > >
> > > -- Andy
> >
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