Eagle Mode is a zoomable user interface (ZUI), with professional file manager and More, for Windows or Linux!!
The Eagle Mode Live CD would not boot up on Software Santa's Mac Intel ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6yPQKt3mBA
Description
Eagle Mode is a zoomable user interface (ZUI) with professional file manager, text & image viewer, audio & video player, archiver, chess game, 3D minesweeper, world clock, and fractal fun, all integrated in a virtual cosmos, with C++ toolkit API.
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Categories
Board Games, Puzzle Games, User Interfaces, File Management, Human Machine Interfaces, Display
License
GNU General Public License version 3.0 (GPLv3)
Features
- Separate popup-zoomed control view
- Help texts in the things they are describing
- Editable bookmarks
- Multiple input methods
- Fast anti-aliased graphics
- Virtually unlimited depth of panel tree
- Portable C++ API
About Eagle Mode
Eagle Mode is an advanced solution for a futuristic style of man-machine communication in which the user can visit almost everything simply by zooming in. It has a professional file manager, file viewers and players for most of the common file types, a chess game, a 3D mines game, a netwalk game, a multi-function clock and some fractal fun, all integrated in a virtual cosmos. Besides, that cosmos also provides a Linux kernel configurator in form of a kernel patch.
By featuring a separate popup-zoomed control view, help texts in the things they are describing, editable bookmarks, multiple input methods, fast anti-aliased graphics, a virtually unlimited depth of panel tree, and by its portable C++ API, Eagle Mode aims to be a cutting edge of zoomable user interfaces.
Eagle Mode is distributed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
Latest version is 0.86.0
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How useful is it?
Eagle Mode is surely at least a nice ZUI demo and fun application. But it can be more. For me, the developer, it is naturally the most efficient file manager in the world, and that even since the source code had just an eighth of the present extent. Some users also reported great satisfaction. If you want to find out whether Eagle Mode could improve your life too, then you will probably have to go the cumbersome way of studying the whole user documentation, reading all the in-button help texts, and practicing all the mouse functions for some hours.
However, Windows users should know that the Windows port of Eagle Mode is just a light version. It has less plugins, less commands, and the commands can handle less files at once. This comes from some programming problems.
How stable and safe is it?
Each new release is well tested, and it is verified by a careful review of every new source code line. Some certain external libraries are only accessed through multiprocessing in a way that the stability of Eagle Mode as a whole does not depend on the stability of those libraries. None of the file manager command buttons changes the file system without popping up a window that asks something, but there is no undo function and no trash can. On UNIX/Linux, archive files are not unpacked if they seem to contain absolute or up-going paths (this feature does not concern Windows, but there we do not have the temporary unpacking by zooming in).
Why does it still have a 0.x version number?
The plugin applications largely have 1.x state. It is the application programming interface (C++ API), which still requires some final work before Eagle Mode may be versioned 1.0. This should not keep anyone from already using the API, because serious source incompatibilities are really not to be expected.
You want an industrial innovation?
The Eagle Mode C++ API could be used to develop human machine interfaces (HMIs), or control stations, or similar industrial applications, as zoomable user interfaces (ZUIs). If it is well done, a ZUI in that area could be very intuitive and logical to use, and it could surely improve and accelerate the work significantly (read here why). Besides, the API would allow to make the product pretty well-structured, efficient and portable. If any company likes to take that chance, I may be able to help - contact me.
http://eaglemode.sourceforge.net/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/eaglemode/
http://eaglemode.sourceforge.net/download.html
http://sourceforge.net/projects/eaglemode/files/latest/download