The eyeOS Team and eyeOS Community are proud to announce the immediate availability of eyeOS 1.6 Gala Sync. This new major release, which has been centered entirely to improve the user experience at eyeOS, includes new applications, significant improvements on the overall usability and new tools to develop better applications, faster.
The new eyeOS 1.6 Desktop includes major improvements such as Drag and Drop between folders and groups, new widgets that can be launched from Accessories menu and a common actions bar, with some overall improvements on its design and functionality.
The new Gala Sync version also includes new applications such as the new eyeFeeds to read RSS sources, the new Text Editor with syntax highlighting for the most common programming languages and autocomplete features, an integrated IDE (only launchable from root user) called eyeCode and some new Games and Tools such as eyeTetravex (a math game with a system highscores system) or the new Calculator.
The system part from eyeOS 1.6 has been also improved: Developers have new base libraries to make apps that communicate beween them and create virtual work groups, lots of small fixes on the eyeOS Toolkit Widgets and the new XML-RPC system , which is the base for the syncronization, and allows the creation of desktop applications which communicate with eyeOS.
Synchronization with your local computer
Probably the most important feature of this release is the ability to create desktop apps that communicate eyeOS with the local computer where the user is in every moment, and the release of eyeSync (the first app to use this technology in eyeOS).
The syncronization tool for eyeOS, called eyeSync, will be an official app but will have its own versioning. The 0.1 version of eyeSync, which allows to syncronize automatically and transparently different folders from the system will be available today for Mac OS X (Tiger/PPC and Leopard/Intel) and Linux (in deb and source/targz), and during the next week for Windows XP and Vista.
eyeSync will keep the folders you indicate always synchronized with your eyeOS account without requiring any action from you: eyeSync will detect every change you do on those folders (copying/removing some files, saving or updating some documents…) and synchronize them with your eyeOS desktop, transparently and automatically.
You can download eyeSync and the new eyeOS version from the eyeOS Downloads page.
The first time you run eyeSync you will have to configure it by putting your server’s URL ( that can be the public server one, http://www.eyeos.info or your own local or remote eyeOS Server) and your username and password. Nothing special must be installed in the server, and all the data is transfered via the port 80, so you won’t encounter problems with local proxies when using it.
Trying the new eyeOS version
As usually, if you want to use the new eyeOS 1.6 version you can do it from the Public Server, which has been already updated to eyeOS 1.6, or downloading and installing to your local server. eyeOS is Open Source Software, released under the Affero GNU Public License (AGPL) version 3.
One more… Thanks!
The development of this version has been done from its first days together with the eyeOS Community. From posts on the Forums regarding the new features that eyeOS 1.6 should had, the continoued contributions and suggestions to the Development Mailing lists, and a really intensive bug reporting during all the beta period.
This has been possible thanks to the more than 1.000 registered users in the Beta server, that will be closed later today.
Thanks!
What’s next?
It’s a bit early to say, but we can announce that the next eyeOS version won’t start by “1″, and will introduce a new eyeOS Toolkit, but always mantaining compatibility with eyeOS Toolkit 1.
We’ll be doing the announcement of the new version Roadmap and plans very soon, after the publication of the stable versions of eyeSync for Windows, Mac and Linux.
Stay tuned!
Great Work!
Congrats to the eyeOS Team, I am looking forward to install this one shortly. Will the Windows Version be on the SVN Soon so we can test with it?
Any chance of posting the source code for the eyeSync Mac version? I’d LOVE to tinker around with it.
Hi,
Eyesync NO FONCTION IN MY MAC :’( :’(
(I am French and MacOsx 10.5.2 on my macbook pro)
LegosJedi, the mac version of eyeSync is the same version of eyeSync linux, but packaged differently.
The source code is in python and it uses pyqt for the user interface, so it is portable to any operating system supporting python and qt.
The source code is available in the section downloads.
A magnificent job. I simply say congratulations!
Regards,
Python, huh? Would you mind if I tried to rewrote it from scratch using Cocoa, a more…. compatible Mac programming language?
LegosJedi,
Of course you can try
. In fact, the new XML-RPC technology allows everyone to create Desktop applications in almost every language that communicate with an eyeOS server.
Samhor,
Have you installed the qt libraries as the readme explains? Does the program start? Does a small rocket (QT) start when eyeSync starts?
Please go to the Forums so we can assist you better.
Regards,
Pau Garcia-Milà
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What about customizing the XML-RPC server? From what I’ve seen, it’s just as simple as editing a system xml config file, right? Wow, if so, this could be a whole ‘nother way of managing your eyeOS system. My brain is teeming with ideas now. Can’t talk. Must code Mac App. Bye!
Also, sorry for double post, but, why DIDN’T you guys use Cocoa? It can’t be a functionality issue, cause it DOES have support for SOAP and XML-RPC requests. Unless…. do you guys not KNOW how to code in Cocoa? That would make a lot of sense.
LegosJedi,
That has a simple answer: Coding in QT meant coding the app ONE time.
Coding in Cocoa for Mac would have meant to code it TWO times: One for Linux/Windows and one for Mac.
In fact, we could even use GTK and C++ for Linux and Gnome, QT for Linux and KDE, Cocoa for Mac OS X (and Carbon for Mac OS Classic, of course
), Visual C++ for Windows, maybe Java but just for Solaris,.. 
The election of QT was for being able to have an application that would run in the three platforms in a centrified way.
But if you want to do the Cocoa Mac version of course you can! Will be , for sure , an amazing project.
And it’s talking a only-mac user (with few exceptions on Linux), playing music with an iPod touch and writting on a MacBook.
Regards,
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And they use Oxygen Icons
nuno,
Maybe the best icon set out there
. You can find all the updated sources (in svg) at the SVN server with the oxygen modified icons for eyeOS (and of course, the thanks to at the About screen!).
When will we see some icons from Marc (the eyeOS designer) at the oxygen project? I’m sure he would be very proud of it!
Regards!
Wow I found this at a portuguese, blog small world hum??
.
Need to take a look at them
been sooooo busy latly
Great OS!!!
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preciso rodar o eyeos em rede, mas não estou conseguindo
Can it do in the future also syncroon the eyeos files with the files on the pc, or is it only possible to syncroon it from the pc to eyeos?
Wow. What can I say. I am completely blown away. This is the most amazing thing since Google.
Flawless. Inspiring. Awesome.
I had a perfect install. Worked immediately. Incredibly powerful yet only minutes to install. Very, very quick.
I cannot heap praise on the EyeOS team enough to tell you how very, very impressed I am.
Just wow, bloody wow. I am so excited about how I am going to use this. First I shall learn how to develop an application.
Thank you for your efforts and for this fabulous piece of programming. By far the most impressive thing I have seen in ages.
Thank you,
Paul Drewett.
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