For the past four months, I've been building a window manager for MacOS based on my 2009 concept video 10/GUI.
I've overcome about a dozen "there's simply no way to do this in MacOS and I have to abandon the project" challenges so far. MacOS really does not want to let you manage windows in this novel of a way, and I've had to come up with a handful of tricks to maintain the illusion that the WM is accessing the compositor at a lower level than it actually is. But it works, and I'm dogfooding it as I go!
I'm hopefully only a few weeks away now from a full announcement and a beta. If you're curious to try the first beta, feel free to get in touch at clayton at presteign dot com.
Mostly just that it's the platform I'm most familiar with and felt reasonably confident in the TAM.
Partly the challenge, too, though! If I were designing within the constraints of a Gnome WM, the result would probably look totally different from where this project is now. It's kind of fun having, on one hand, a lot of OS restrictions to work around, but on the other, native first-party multi-touch, Core Animation, and a rich history of platform conventions to draw from and adapt.
I've overcome about a dozen "there's simply no way to do this in MacOS and I have to abandon the project" challenges so far. MacOS really does not want to let you manage windows in this novel of a way, and I've had to come up with a handful of tricks to maintain the illusion that the WM is accessing the compositor at a lower level than it actually is. But it works, and I'm dogfooding it as I go!
I'm hopefully only a few weeks away now from a full announcement and a beta. If you're curious to try the first beta, feel free to get in touch at clayton at presteign dot com.