Mold Desktop

A Programmable Desktop.

Inspirations

• McCLIM (commands, presentations).
• NakedObjects (expose object's properties to UI, commands apply to specific domain models).
• Emacs (commands, programmability).
• Smalltalk (halos, programmability).

Running

Download somewhere where QuickLisp can find the project, then:

(ql:quickload :mold-desktop)
(mold-desktop:start)

Use qlot for managing the dependencies:

Install qlot if you don't have it:

 curl -L https://qlot.tech/installer | sh

then install dependencies:

qlot install

start a Lisp repl with in the qlot environment:

qlot exec sbcl

Load and start:

(ql:quickload :mold-desktop)
(mold-desktop:start)

Development

When working with a remote SWANK, we would like *trace-output* and *standard-output* be bound to SLIME streams. But inside threads they are not. This binds them to top-level and makes them accessible via connected SLIME.

(setq bt:*default-special-bindings*
      (list (cons '*trace-output* *trace-output*)
            (cons '*standard-output* *standard-output*)))

Presentation Video

Screenshots

References

• EMACS: The Extensible, Customizable Display Editor
• Computational media
• Presentation Based User Interface
• Future of software
• Type systems and UX example
• Direct Combination - A new user interaction
• Living in Your Programming Environment
• Naked Objects