Английская Википедия:Ambient (desktop environment)
Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Infobox software Ambient is a MUI-based desktop environment for MorphOS.[1] Its development was started in 2001 by David Gerber. Its main goals were that it should be fully asynchronous, simple and fast. Ambient remotely resembles Workbench and Directory Opus Magellan trying to mix the best of both worlds.
Features
Ambient does not strictly follow the Amiga Workbench interface paradigm but there are still many similarities: while programs are called tools, program attributes are called tooltypes, data files are projects and directories are drawers.
- support for ARexx scripting language
- default icon library for hundreds of fileformats
- fully asynchronous, multi-threaded design
- fast asynchronous file I/O functions and file notifications
- support for PNG and other Amiga icon formats
- built-in icon, workbench and wbstart libraries
- built-in applications like disk formatting and commodities manager
- panels which are used as program launchers
Ambient is localized for various languages and while it is part of MorphOS, it is also available separately. There are various visual effects in Ambient which are taking an advantage of hardware accelerated visual effects in MorphOS.[2]
Desktop icons
The native icon format in Ambient is PNG, but there is built-in support for other Amiga icon formats. Ambient introduced a special icon format called DataType Icons where the icon is simply any image file renamed to include the .info extension. Those icons are read using the Amiga DataType system.
| Original Amiga icons | MagicWB | NewIcons | GlowIcons | GlowIcons32 | DT Icons | PNG | DualPNG | SVG | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Colours | 4 | 8 | 256 | 256 | 16M | 16M | 16M | 16M | 16M |
| Alpha blending | Шаблон:No | Шаблон:No | Шаблон:No | Шаблон:No | Шаблон:Yes | Шаблон:Yes | Шаблон:Yes | Шаблон:Yes | Not sure |
| Icon size | Шаблон:N/A | Шаблон:N/A | 36×40 | 46×46 | 46×46 | 128×128 | 128×128 | 128×128 | 128x128 |
| Second state image | Шаблон:Yes | Шаблон:Yes | Шаблон:Yes | Шаблон:Yes | Шаблон:Yes | Шаблон:No | Шаблон:No | Шаблон:Yes | Шаблон:No |
| Embedded metadata | Шаблон:Yes | Шаблон:Yes | Шаблон:Yes | Шаблон:Yes | Шаблон:Yes | Шаблон:No | Шаблон:Yes | Шаблон:Yes | Not sure |
Development status
In 2005, David Gerber released Ambient source code under GPL[3] and it is now developed by the Ambient development team.
See also
References
External links
- ↑ http://morphos.de/files/src/3.11//ambient.tar.bz2 Source code of MorphOS 3.11
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ Ошибка цитирования Неверный тег
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