[Haskell-cafe] Re: Manatee - The Haskell/Gtk+ Integrated Live Environment first version release!

[David Leimbach]

Wow!

Is this just for Linux or is anyone able to run it on Mac OS X?

Dave

On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 7:51 PM, Andy Stewart <lazycat.manatee at gmail.com>wrote:

> My project want to provide a fact:
>
> Haskell not just can do GUI environment, and can do better!
>
> Gtk2hs + Haskell Threads is awesome!
>
> Below is source code lines of Manatee:
>
>   All                          : 21651
>
>   Core and toolkit             : 7047
>   Daemon and Window Manager    : 3656
>   Multi-Threads input framework: 2537
>   Browser                      : 488
>   Editor                       : 813
>   File manager                 : 774
>   Image viewer                 : 565
>   IRC client                   : 2212
>   Multimedia player            : 1358
>   PDF viewer                   : 457
>   Process Manager              : 761
>   RSS/Atom reader              : 893
>
>  -- Andy
>
> Andy Stewart <lazycat.manatee at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I am proud to announce the release my gtk2hs project : Manatee - The
> Haskell/Gtk+ Integrated Live
> > Environment
> >
> > http://hackage.haskell.org/package/manatee
> >
> > Screenshots at : http:goo.gl/MkVw
> > Code at https://patch-tag.com/r/AndyStewart/ beginning with manatee-*
> >
> > Manatee is Haskell integrated environment written in Haskell.
> >
> > The goal of the Manatee project is to provide a fast, safe and flexible
> > integrated environment for haskell hacking.
> >
> > You can consider it is new environment mix Gnome and Emacs.
> > Like Gnome to provide friendly graphics interface and work efficient like
> Emacs.
> >
> > Manatee use multi-processes framework, any sub-module running in separate
> process to protected core
> > won't crash. So it
> > minimize your losses when some unexpected exception throw in extension.
> >
> > Now i have implement below sub-modules in Manatee:
> >
> >     Editor
> >     Webkit Browser
> >     File Manager
> >     Image Viewer
> >     IRC Client
> >     Multimedia Player
> >     PDF Viewer
> >     Process Manager
> >     RSS/Atom reader
> >
> >>From some friends feedback, manatee can't work in XMonad, i will fix it
> soon.
> > You can play it in Gnome. Enjoy! :)
> >
> > Below are steps to build Manatee:
> >
> > 1) Install C library: In Debian use below command:
> >
> >  sudo aptitude install libgtksourceview2.0-dev libgconf2-dev
> libwebkit-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev
> > libgtkimageview-dev libpoppler-glib-dev poppler-data libtagc0-dev -y
> >
> > 2) Install Gtk2hs:
> >
> >  cabal install gtk2hs-buildtools gtk
> >
> > And make sure HOME.cabalbin/ in your PATH.
> >
> > 3) Install Manatee:
> >
> >  cabal install manatee-core manatee-anything manatee-browser
> manatee-editor manatee-filemanager
> > manatee-imageviewer manatee-ircclient manatee-mplayer manatee-pdfviewer
> manatee-processmanager
> > manatee-reader manatee
> >
> > That's all, then type command manatee to play it! :)
> >
> > "manatee-core" "manatee-anything" "manatee" are core packages, must be
> > install, other extension package you can choose you want.
> >
> > Example, if you not install manatee-imageviewer, when you open Image
> > file, manatee will call default image-viewer in your system instead.
> >
> > Manatee will show you "search interface" when you startup it.
> > You can type some filepath or url to open it,
> > example, you can type Haskell file to open in editor,
> > and type url to open in browser.
> >
> > Below are quick play keys:
> >
> >     "F2"     ==> startProcessManager
> >     "F3"     ==> startFeedReader
> >     "F4"     ==> startFileManager
> >     "F5"     ==> startBrowser
> >     "F6"     ==> loginIrcDefaultChannel
> >     "F7"     ==> startIrc
> >
> > Manatee project still in early develop stage, just core framework
> > finish, many details still not perfect.
> >
> > But i think it's good start to build Real-World application in Haskell.
> >
> > Below are high task in my TODO list:
> >
> >     Perfect current sub-module:
> >       IDE features, code completion
> >       browser JavaScript framework
> >       graphics custom system
> >       etc.
> >
> >     Terminal emulator:
> >       support MVC design, not like VTE widget
> >
> >     Mail-client
> >
> >     BT-Client
> >
> >     Proxy bridge:
> >       to build uniform proxy interface to fighting GFW!!!
> >
> >     Jabbar client:
> >       video support etc.
> >
> >     Spell checker
> >
> >     CHM viewer
> >
> >     DVI viewer
> >
> >     LaTex editor
> >
> >     PS viewer
> >
> >     Multi-thread download manager
> >
> >     Org-Mode : http://orgmode.org/
> >
> >     Twitter client
> >
> >     Network toolkit:
> >       sniffer etc.
> >
> >     Multi-Language translater
> >       offline support
> >
> >     Too many ideas lying in my TODO list....
> >
> > Any suggestion and contribution are welcome! :)
> >
> >   -- Andy
>
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