Hawaii (desktop environment)

Hawaii
Original author(s)	Pier Luigi Fiorini
Developer(s)	The Maui Project
Initial release	April 6, 2011 (2011-04-06)
Stable release	0.2.0
Development status	Active
Written in	Qt Quick and C++
Available in	Multilingual
Type	Graphical shell desktop environment
License	GPL
Website	github.com/hawaii-desktop/

Hawaii is a Wayland^[1]^[2] and Qt Quick^[3]-based desktop environment with few dependencies aiming at desktop and mobile convergence. It is primarily used by Maui, a Linux system with atomic upgrades and bundles.

Hawaii adopted the Simple Desktop Display Manager.

The Hawaii Desktop Environment was also adopted by RebeccaBlackOS, a Linux "live" distribution intended to serve as a technology preview.^[4]

References

Desktop environments, widget toolkits, and window managers based on the X Window System or Wayland

Desktop environments
(Comparison)

GTK+-based	Cinnamon GNOME GPE LXDE MATE Pantheon ROX Desktop Sugar Xfce

Qt-based	Hawaii KDE SC LXQt OPIE MoonLightDE Razor-qt Trinity

Motif-based	CDE IRIX Interactive Desktop VUE

Other	EDE (FLTK-based) Étoilé (GNUstep-based) Mezzo OpenWindows (OLIT-based) UDE Enlightenment (EFL-based)

Graphical shells

X window managers
(Comparison)

Compositing	Compiz KWin Metacity Muffin Mutter Xfwm

Tiling	awesome dwm i3 Ion larswm PWM ratpoison StumpWM wmii xmonad

Stacking	4Dwm 9wm AfterStep amiwm Blackbox cwm Fluxbox FLWM FVWM Hackedbox IceWM JWM Matchbox Motif Window Manager olwm Openbox PekWM Qvwm Sawfish swm twm tvtwm vtwm Window Maker WindowLab

Wayland compositors

Enlightenment
Gala
KWin
Mutter
Muffin
Mir
Weston

Components

Dock
Pager
Taskbar
Title bar
Window decorator

Hawaii (desktop environment)

See also

References