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Presentation du Projet Toy'd et Invitation

Hello Everyone,

I would like to introduce you to The Toy'd Project.

The Toy'd Project
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Toy'd is a student project being developed at the {EPITECH.} European Institute of Technology by a group of 7 students, which aims at providing a software solution to obtain a unique User Interface for any kind of platform.

  ** Toy'd **
Toy'd (Take Over Your Desktop) is a next-generation, object-oriented, portable Window Manager, that enables you to enjoy the same visual experience and desktop environment whether you are at work on a UNIX system or at home on your PC under Microsoft Windows.
The idea behind Toy'd is very simple: it comes from the basic fact that a vast majority of users use multiple systems, with different user interfaces and desktops, and that this perpetual change can be annoying, not onlyy for the experimented power-user, but also for the beginner who may want to give a try to other alternative Operating Systems.

Why would you have to switch to another desktop just because you use another platform ? Are why would you take the risk to feel lost in a brand new environment when you could at least keep the benefits of a proven and bullet-proof interface ?
In the end, for your own comfort, your work and leisure shouldn't be affected by those differences, and that is exactly where Toy'd comes in.

Finally, MS-Windows and Linux can be used as one.

  ** Aoof-Wm **
To achieve this level of abstraction, Toy'd relies on what we call an abstraction framework, Aoof-Wm, an Advanced Object-Oriented Framework for Window Managers.
Aoof-Wm is the middleware that works behind Toy'd to allow you to use a unique desktop regardless of the host platform, by taking care for you of the Operating Systems' internal workings' abstraction.
It means that basically, Toy'd can work on any platform supported by Aoof-Wm, which makes Toy'd really fully portable without any source code rewrite. And you won't even notive a difference!

Aoof-Wm can also be used by development teams and companies to build other Window Managers, that would also benefit of the same portability. But our framework doesn't limit itself to Window Managers. Graphical abstraction is not its only feature, and it can abstract so much more, you could use it to develop and build other applications on top of it, making your products fully multiplatform, and expending your market exposure by the amount of platforms supported by Aoof-Wm.

Toy'd and Aoof-Wm are available free of charge, and are Free Softwares distributed under the terms of the General Public License.
Both are developed in C++.

Current Status
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Toy'd is currently still under heavy development, as is Aoof-Wm.
Therefore do not be surprised if it changes a lot and do not look for a 'stable' or '1.00' version.
We are far from being there yet, but we are definitely getting there, slowly, and safely.

On the 2nd of February, at 19:00 GMT+1, The Toy'd Team will be attending its final defence for this 2 years-long Student Project.
For us it isn't the end, but in the opposite the beginning. We will be able to start from a solid basis and have the opportunity to experiment new concepts and ideas we couldn't during those 2 years because of the limitations we voluntarily set to prepare for our examinations.

We hope everything goes well, and are really looking forward to this.

So, if you want to have a short glimpse of what Toy'd may look like in the future, or of the potentially amazing features of Aoof-Wm, do not hesitate to stop by on the 2nd of February, at 19:00, at the {EPITECH.}. We will be pleased to have you there and to have a chance to further expose our project.
Curious and enthusiast visitors are most welcome, and you may contact us to get entrance passes.

For more informations, feel free to visit our main website:
    http://www.toyd.org/

Developers can also have a look at your SubVersioN source code version control system:
    https://svn.toyd.org/
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or visit us on our Google Project Homepages:
    http://code.google.com/p/toyd/
    http://code.google.com/p/aoofwm/
Developers may also find interesting information in the Aoof-Wm/doc/ directory of the Aoof-Wm SVN.

If you want more informations, or wish to get in touch with us for any kind of communication, from partnerships' proposals to features' requests, not forgetting bug-reports, you can also contact us on:
    - our IRC channel                   -> irc.freenode.net#toyd
    - the Toy'd Users Newsgroup         -> http://groups.google.com/group/toyd-users
    - The Toy'd Developers Newsgroup    -> http://groups.google.com/group/toyd-dev/

You may also contribute to the effort by reporting bugs or suggesting new features by yourself. Use our Google Issue Trackers:
    - Toy'd Issue Tracker               -> http://code.google.com/p/toyd/issues/list
    - Aoof-Wm Issue Tracker             -> http://code.google.com/p/aoofwm/issues/list

Finally, you can also have a look at some experiments we made with Toy'd & Aoof-Wm a while ago, while trying to implement the next-generation features of what people could expect from an advanced Window Manager:
    http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=toy%27d

Let us know what you think, do not hesitate to contact us if you want passes for the defence on the 2nd of February, and be patient :-) We are doing our very best to develop Toy'd the way we want it to be, and we hope you will like it as we do.

Thank you for your attention.

Have a nice day.

Struddel

Re : Presentation du Projet Toy'd et Invitation

As we don't have an alpha or beta version of our project yet, these are some proof of concepts.

Hum ....

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Ratpoison

Grrrumpy

Re : Presentation du Projet Toy'd et Invitation

As we don't have an alpha or beta version of our project yet, these are some proof of concepts.

Hum ....

hum, that's kinda old...

But indeed we haven't scheduled a first release yet.
However some demos are available on the SVN.

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Cette remarque est assez ancienne.

Mais en effet nous n'avons pas encore planifie la sortie de la premiere version.
Cependant quelques demos sont disponibles sur le SVN.

Creveur

Re : Presentation du Projet Toy'd et Invitation

En tout cas ça a l'air très intéressant! En plus c'est apparemment des français qui sont a la base du projet....
J'espère qu'il y aura  bientôt moyen de tester ça!

Dernière modification par Creveur (Le 23/01/2007, à 14:14)

grrrumpy

Re : Presentation du Projet Toy'd et Invitation

Bonjour,

en effet l'equipe de developpement est francaise.
Si vous le desirez, comme annonce dans mon post original, vous pouvez venir assister a notre soutenance de projet de fin d'etudes pour en apprendre plus sur Toy'd et Aoof-Wm, et en profiter pour le voir rapidement en action.

Cette soutenance a lieu a l'{EPITECH.}, 22 rue Pasteur, Kremlin-Bicetre (94270), a 19h00 (ainsi que 2 autres projets etudiants dans le meme creneau horaire).
La salle n'est pas encore communiquee.

Gras_du_Bide

Re : Presentation du Projet Toy'd et Invitation

Mais alors pourquoi une présentation en anglais sur un forum francophone?!

grrrumpy

Re : Presentation du Projet Toy'd et Invitation

Mais alors pourquoi une présentation en anglais sur un forum francophone?!

une apparente faineantise en raison de la predominance de l'anglais dans le domaine de l'informatique... oups :-(

Je mettrai un lien vers une version francaise ce soir.

grrrumpy

Re : Presentation du Projet Toy'd et Invitation

Pour ceux qui se demanderaient ou nous en sommes depuis la derniere fois, voici quelques nouvelles...

Nous venons d'achever nos soutenances de fin d'etudes et par la donc la partie etudiante de ce projet, que nous comptons desormais poursuivre en dehors de l'{EPITECH.} (qui devrait normalement accepter de nous donner les droits complets sur notre travail, qui restera donc bien OpenSource sous licence GPL).

En ce qui concerne le projet sur le plan technique, nous comptons reprendre des grands pans de l'API d'Aoof-Wm, qui a ete un peu malmenee ces derniers temps en raison de l'urgence de notre developpement en mode scolaire.

De plus, notre equipe de developpement change et certains membres nous quittent pour des raisons professionnelles et personnelles, etant attire par d'autres objectifs.

Je vous invite a aller jeter un oeil sur notre site web:
  http:///www.toyd.org/

et plus particulierement cette news:
  http://www.toyd.org/?id=2&news=26
ou nous vous livrons la premiere 'Community Technical Preview' de Toy'd.
je precise que que la version Windows necessite la creation d'un compte utilisateur a part pour le test (car cela plantera surement, sans consequence grave, mais vous permettra de tester en toute serenite)

N'hesitez pas a nous remonter tout bug sur les bug tracker de Toy'd et Aoof-Wm
  http://code.google.com/p/toyd
  http://code.google.com/p/aoofwm

Pour toute question, si vous voulez un temps de reponse plus efficace que sur CrystalXP ou d'autres forums que je n'ai malheureusement pas le temps de tous visiter en permanence, rendez vous sur :
  http://groups.google.com/group/toyd-users
ou sur notre channel IRC:
   irc.freenode.net#toyd

Encore merci, et bon test aux courageux ;-)