Bongos - a New Social Desktop

Source (link to git-repo or to original if based on someone elses unmodified work): Add the source-code for this project on opencode.net

Description:

Bongos is a new Social Desktop being developed, currently, by a small team. I'm the Chief Designer tasked with developing the GUI and general artwork that will be shipped along with Bongos.

The aim of Bongos is take all of your favourite social web activities - your twitter, facebook, myspace, indentica, flickr and so on - and integrate them into your desktop. Bongos is looking to be cross-distro and possibly cross-plaform. Primarily it'll be KDE-based, but we would like a GNOME team as well.

We're calling on all artists, coders, developers, idea-makers and People-With-Opinions to come to our forum and contribute what you will! We'd love to hear what ideas you have.

http://forums.chillat.net/forum/bongos

You can see my dA gallery on the current state of artwork, mockups and demonstrations of Bongos:

http://izobalax.deviantart.com/gallery/#Bongos

What IS Bongos? One of our developers explains:

http://mini-mite.deviantart.com/journal/28349344/

We look forward to hearing from you soon!

EDIT: added a link to Search and Launch Containment feature:

http://izobalax.deviantart.com/art/Bongos-Search-and-Launch-144094008

EDIT2: Website front page complete! Online soon!

http://izobalax.deviantart.com/art/Bongos-Website-COMING-SOON-147521598

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Last changelog:

11 years ago

211209: added link to website front page submission + screenshot

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Naraku
10 years ago

Looks great, but is there anything going on?

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Refused
11 years ago

very nice stuff! keep up the good work

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Izo
11 years ago

Thanks very much!

/izo\

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aray
11 years ago

This is a great idea.

I was waiting to have something similar to this. Will eagerly wait for the first release.

Just one suggestion : Can we resize it? For me the height looks little bigger because many users will have other plasmoids on the desktop. If this is a plasmoid type then I am sure we can resize it.

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Izo
11 years ago

Thanks for the comments! Yes, I imagine the sidebar plasmoid would be resizeable, my next demonstration involves showing our WebView that would occupy the main desktop; it will be a plasmoid that points to a local host and displays various pages from various sites.

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