Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="reanjr" data-source="post: 3092568" data-attributes="member: 20740">Honestly, the best thing I could possibly see is a window manager that allows you to open applications and add them to a single interface.&nbsp; Would be tabbed and support dockable and tabbable toolwindows.&nbsp; Also have slideouts.This would allow the DM to use the programs he likes using but organize them into one environment.For inspiration, see the VS IDE and some of the Linux X window managers.Alternatively, a pluggable system that supports these types of things would be very useful as well.&nbsp; At minimal it would support web browsing, simple text documents, dice roller, and administratively (DM) controlled LAN chat out of the box.Eclipse IDE is a possible inspiration for this as well.&nbsp; You could create the set of plugins required to turn it into a mean table tob gaming machine.&nbsp; Along with good packaging and deployment (the place many Open Source apps fail).&nbsp; Not sure how licensing might affect you, though.I would love to see something like Eclipse.NET.&nbsp; I hate being stuck with Java as my only language choice and am not a fan of their GUI toolkits.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="reanjr, post: 3092568, member: 20740"] Honestly, the best thing I could possibly see is a window manager that allows you to open applications and add them to a single interface. Would be tabbed and support dockable and tabbable toolwindows. Also have slideouts. This would allow the DM to use the programs he likes using but organize them into one environment. For inspiration, see the VS IDE and some of the Linux X window managers. Alternatively, a pluggable system that supports these types of things would be very useful as well. At minimal it would support web browsing, simple text documents, dice roller, and administratively (DM) controlled LAN chat out of the box. Eclipse IDE is a possible inspiration for this as well. You could create the set of plugins required to turn it into a mean table tob gaming machine. Along with good packaging and deployment (the place many Open Source apps fail). Not sure how licensing might affect you, though. I would love to see something like Eclipse.NET. I hate being stuck with Java as my only language choice and am not a fan of their GUI toolkits. [/QUOTE]

Verification