#A potato

Potato is a desktop environment, written in Uxntal.

#Build

You must have an Uxntal assembler.

uxnasm src/potato.tal bin/potato.rom
uxnemu bin/potato.rom

If do not wish to assemble it yourself, you can download potato.rom.

#Manual

Since this is designed to be used principally on a handheld devices without a window manager, the controls are aimed at d-pad centric. The pattern here is using the B button to handle all window operations, and leave the A button to the applications. Alternatively, you can open a file with mouse2.

• B+Up, expand a window
• B+Down, tab a window
• B+Right, open a window
• B+Left, close a window

#Editing the theme

Saving the theme, from the tile or theme editor will create a hidden file called .theme, which can be opened and edited in Nasu.

#Adding a wallpaper

The wallpaper is an invisible file called .wallpaper in the working directory, the file is a 1bpp icn of the size of the desktop. The wallpaper image can be created with Noodle.

#TODO

• Change cursor icon on alt mod for drag.
• Fix mouse picking issue in Play app.
• Terminal.
• Remove scrollbar in text editor and add line numbers.
• Hex Viewer.
• .wallpaper should open as Picture.

#Support

• theme
• snarf