Étoilé

Infobox_Software
name = Étoilé
logo =


caption = Étoilé CVS screenshot showing Azalea plus the MenuServer and the dock, with the Nesedah theme.
developer = [http://etoileos.com/support/team/ Étoilé Developers]
latest_release_version = 0.2
latest_release_date = 28 July 2007
operating_system = Cross-platform
genre = Desktop environment
license = LGPL/BSD
website = http://etoileos.com/

Étoilé ( _en. starry) is a GNUstep-based free software desktop environment built from the ground up on highly modular and light components with project and document orientation in mind, in order to allow users to create their own workflow by reshaping or recombining provided Services (aka Applications), Components, etc. [ cite web | url = http://www.ohloh.net/projects/4841 | title = Étoilé Ohloh Overview and Stats | accessdate = 2007-08-09 ]

Étoilé avoids many of the conventional desktop metaphors in favor of a higher-level representation of objects. This helps it represent objects that are not traditionally mapped onto files, such as people. Étoilé also hopes to avoid the inflexibility of file names and hierarchies by allowing users to tag objects and maintain a collection of objects (instead of relying on folders). [ cite web | url = http://www.capino.cz/etoile | title = The Étoilé Project Feasibility Study User Approval Research | accessdate = 2007-08-09 ]

Flexibility and modularity on both user interface and code level should allow it to be scaled from PDA to computer environment.

The project's goals are:
* Light, focused applications, cooperating to provide a rich user experience, using GNUstep services and Étoilé's own Services model.
* Fast, simple data sharing between tasks and documents, with few context switches, such as between applications, between windows, and using selection.
* Facility to composite, layout unrelated elements in first-class objects like documents, folders, etc.
* Work flow based on project-inspired management (versioning, indexing, sharing)
* Easy communication and collaboration among users, where users are first-class objects in the environment.
* Assistant technology similar to Apple Newton's approach.

The project cooperates with the GNUstep project. It provides frameworks, user interface guidelines and documentation to permit GNUstep developers to easily develop Étoilé compliant applications (called Services).

ee also

*Comparison of X Window System desktop environments

References

External links

* [http://etoileos.com/ New site of Étoilé]
* [http://etoileos.com/news/ Étoilé Development Blog]
* [http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/29/2042254 Etoile Project Releases Mac-Like Environment]
* [silc://silc.etoile-project.org] - Étoilé SILC server - chat with developers