earl-ducaine / garnet-desktop-lab

Playing around with various concepts and ideas about how to Garnet for a Lisp desktop. Perhaps something along the lines of what Gnome is gtk.

Garnet Lab

Playing around with various concepts and ideas about how to Garnet for a Lisp desktop. Perhaps something along the lines of what Gnome is gtk.

Desktop application:

1. Launcher
2. Text editor
3. Vector drawing tool
4. Bitmap drawing tool
5. Envirnonment/configuration browser
6. Package manager

Installing (proposed)

1. Make sure you have Quicklisp installed and Garnet installed in a way that quicklisp/asdf can find it. (it’s not in the Quicklisp repo.)
2. Clone the Garnet repo to a convenient location:

   clone git https://github.com/earl-ducaine/garnet-desktop-lab ~/garnet-desktop-lab
       

3. Make sure your Lisp isn’t running, then create a symbolic link in Quicklisp’s local-projects folder and delete Quicklisp’s system index. (to force it to re-search directories)

   cd ~/quicklisp/local-projects
   ln -s ~/garnet-desktop-lab .
   rm ~/quicklisp/local-projects/system-index.txt
       

4. You should now be able to load the repo and all its dependancies via Quicklisp, and run the demo or begin using the library.

   (ql:quickload  :xoanon.gui.garnet.asd)
   (demos-controller::do-go)