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Can Rainmeter be Adapted as an OS?

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Quill
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Can Rainmeter be Adapted as an OS?

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I just found out about Rainmeter the other day and I find it pretty interesting. I'm curious whether or not it would be possible to somehow change Rainmeter into a fairly light-weight OS?

Also, does it have any touch screen support for tablets or anything like that?
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Re: Can Rainmeter be Adapted as an OS?

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Just what the world needs... ;-)

Seriously, uhm... no. Rainmeter is tied at the DNA level with Windows, and is not intended to duplicate, much less replace the OS functionality provided by Windows. It is mostly just a way to add some very spiffy "widgets" to your desktop, that you have complete control over as far as what they do and how they look.

As far as touch screen, there is no specific functionality that Rainmeter provides. It should work fine with a touch interface, in the sense that the touches are interpreted as mouse actions. Things that are not, like pinch gestures to shrink or grow, would not even be seen by Rainmeter.
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Re: Can Rainmeter be Adapted as an OS?

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That's what I wanted to know. I just wondered if, since Rainmeter is based on GNU, Linux act as the base and Rainmeter would be more of the GUI.
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Re: Can Rainmeter be Adapted as an OS?

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The GNU that is associated with Rainmeter is not the Linux OS, it is the license that it uses.
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Re: Can Rainmeter be Adapted as an OS?

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Quill wrote:That's what I wanted to know. I just wondered if, since Rainmeter is based on GNU, Linux act as the base and Rainmeter would be more of the GUI.
GNU is just a licensing agreement for open source software, and doesn't in and of itself point to any particular operating system. In any case, Rainmeter is very much Windows based, and it is unlikely to be ported to any unix/linux environment. Even in the Widows world, we have no plans to extend Rainmeter into any kind of "shell replacement" although we may nibble at the edges of some additional functionality associated with the shell over time.
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Re: Can Rainmeter be Adapted as an OS?

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[nitpick]GNU is an OS, not a license. The GNU GPL, on the other hand, is a license.[/nitpick]
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Re: Can Rainmeter be Adapted as an OS?

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poiru wrote:[nitpick]GNU is an OS, not a license. The GNU GPL, on the other hand, is a license.[/nitpick]
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Also, GNU is Not Unix.
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