Skeuomorphic Linux desktop DEsk ships first public beta
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On October 15, Hacker News featured DEsk, a Wayland-based Linux desktop environment, releasing v0.1.2 Beta. This is the project's first public version, and a Fedora installer is available. DEsk uses an iOS 6-style skeuomorphic design that renders the desktop as a room: windows are papers on a walnut desk, the dock becomes a drawer, apps sit on a bookshelf, notifications drop into a mailbox, and system controls are set into the wall behind the desk. The whole room is rendered with GPU ray tracing on GLES 3, with CPU tracing as a fallback. So far the report discloses the beta release and the Fedora installer.
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- Hacker News front pageWayland desktop for Linux with skeuomorphic design
DEsk 发布 v0.1.2 Beta，这是其首个公开版本，并提供了 Fedora 安装器。它是一款基于 Wayland 的 Linux 桌面环境，采用 iOS 6 式拟物化设计：窗口是胡桃木桌上的纸张，dock 是抽屉，应用存放在书架上，通知投递到邮筒，系统控制面板嵌在桌后，整个房间由 GPU 光线追踪渲染（GLES 3，CPU 追踪作为回退）。
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