ok every is wanting something from the suite that could be done if we made a shell program now there are a few commercial versions on the market however most require integration as an explorer replacement here is my proposal is it possible to make a shell that:
1) runs without needing to run an emulation program
2)does not conflict with the native os shell
3)runs on both windows and mac and linux
4) could support core "dll" like structures
5) has its own sub registry that is taken with it
6) effectively is an os within the os but dosent lock the host systems shell from being accessed
(ok there the first 6 ideas that a shell can achieve easily i figure more will be added)
please add more ideas as we go here guys and lets look at the cost (in time and effort) to the benefit this would give the platform making it a true platform rather then just a menu i think is an advantage but please make a comment on this idea
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is it possible to make a shell that: ... 1-6
NO
I will let someone else go into the details as to why.
Suffice it to say that if ALL of the above could be done it would have been.
Tim
Things have got to get better, they can't get worse, or can they?
(ok there the first 6 ideas that a shell can achieve easily i figure more will be added)
easily? YEAH RIGHT. you know how much programmer experience is needed even to write a simple shell? i'll address each of your points:
1) that would be very hard to do, as shells are self-contained, and are almost always integrated in the OS.
2) good luck with doing that on Windows
3) just no. you cannot make a cross-platform shell. it's just impossible.
4) again, this would only work on Windows
5) a registry is always bad, but otherwise an ok idea
6) you're thinking of a virtual machine.
cost? 100+ developers, 6 months, and $1 million.
Now you see why there is no free program that does this in existence.
I made a version of GeoShell that was portable. It fits #1,2,4,5,& 6. It's here on the site somewhere under beta testing...
https://portableapps.com/node/16879