Re: Ambrosia Desktop Environment

Here's the first ever Screenshot of the Ambrosia Compositor running, it
still needs a lot of work/polish, I'm not sure what's broken from the
compositor vs the Wayland backend:

[image: 20260410_17h12m43s_grim.png]

On Fri, 10 Apr 2026 at 11:37, Gregory Casamento <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Also… awesome looking desktop!
>
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> On Thu, Apr 9, 2026 at 09:31 James Carthew <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've been using Claude to start hacking on A GNUstep based Desktop called
>> ambrosia. This is designed to be a more mac-like desktop. I'm targeting
>> Objective-C-2.0, blocks, arc, and Wayland Backend. My approach is to create
>> a new Wayland compositor targeting GNUstep/NSMacintoshMenuStyle and I'll be
>> trying to resurrect the WildMenus code on Wayland. There's not a lot to
>> show at this point so here's a pretty screenshot of the dock
>> application. SystemPreferences.app will be extended with modules for all
>> configurations. The window management code is broken but it is starting to
>> show applications. This Dock screenshot is from Wayfire not
>> ambrosia-compositor.[image: Dock.png]
>>
>>