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

12 Nov 2010


      David Leimbach  writes:
...
Wow!
Is this just for Linux or is anyone able to run it on Mac OS X?
I don't know whether can work on Mac.
I design it for Linux.

  -- Andy
...
Dave
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 7:51 PM, Andy Stewart  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  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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