Architecture
The overall decisions and misc technical components.
Slowshell is written in Rust (common these days). It's supposed to be lightweight, and have Plugins for custom application.
Slowshell is essentially a compositor for a global registry, one process that owns and manages multiple layershell windows and route events to whomever needs them.
The whole flow is:
- [Daemon starts] -> [Collects Plugins] -> [Register Everything] -> [Starts event loop] -> [Initiate desktop items] -> [Sleep]
And unless an event is fired, nothing else is done.
Desktop Items
The anchor of basically the whole Philosophy. DesktopItems are the actual components that:
- listen to events
- make updates
- do actions
- render something
For example:
- panels are desktop items
- the spotlight is a desktop item
- and so on...
Renderables
Renderables are free-roaming ui elements that can be rendered on surfaces that allow renderables. They are like little plugs that can be socketed on some parent (not like Components).
The reason they exist is to have miniature versions of desktop items, but a lot more composable and drawable on any surface.