Ambient (desktop environment)

Ambient is a MUI-based desktop environment for MorphOS. Its development was started in 2001 by David Gerber. Its main goals were that it should be fully asynchronous, simple and fast. Ambient remotely resembles Workbench and Directory Opus Magellan trying to mix the best of both worlds.

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Ambient does not strictly follow the Amiga Workbench interface paradigm but there are still many similarities: while programs are called tools program attributes are called tooltypes, data files are projects and directories are drawers.

support for ARexx scripting language

default icon library for hundreds of fileformats

fully asynchronous, multi-threaded design

fast asynchronous file I/O functions and file notifications

support for PNG and other Amiga icon formats

built-in icon, workbench and wbstart libraries

built-in applications like disk formatting and commodities manager

panels which are used as program launchers

Ambient is localized for various languages and while part of MorphOS it is also available separately. There are various visual effects in Ambient which are taking an advantage of hardware accelerated visual effects in MorphOS.

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