| Brandon | Fun500 6 PlansThis week (tonight through thursday night) I will be at a GIS conference/training. I'm not really into the GIS that much, but I'm getting a free all-expenses paid trip, so I figure why not. I'm hoping the Hotel has free Wifi, so I can keep things rolling, but if not, Todd's always here to moderate.
When I get back I want to start on a big project, Fun500 6. It seems like only yesterday I was struggling to get a 2.0 release done, and now I'm working toward 6? Wow.
6 will be a special design, a somewhat uncommon one, not a scripter or a unitasker, but a all-in-one exe. Which means that apps can't be added or removed without a recompile, but the upsides outweigh this in my opinion.
Over a unitasker, I can run more than one app at a time, something all users want from a modern system. Over a scripter, apps are written in native FB, meaning more speed and less overhead.
Now Fun500 5 is still fairly young, and will not be abandoned but repositioned, still receiving support (and hopefully apps from 3rd parties!!). One idea I have is that 6 will have the ability to run 5 apps in "compatibly mode", obviously one at a time, but they will be integrated into the menu, and 6 will have a native version of the 5 PkMan.
Other plans for 6 include a G2 sidebar, something that I have planned for some time, a native file manager, and a native EZ script runner, so that Apps for 4 may be run side by side with the new apps.
In time, 6 will gain its own scripter, and more built in apps, possibly an RSS reader, and/or IM client.
Trolly, I'll meet you at GUI Awards '09! | 2009-06-28 | 2:01 PM |
