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The qWikiOffice Desktop Environment is a project that is currently in development.

It is has not been released as stable or documented. It is currently available for download for developers who wish to investigate, nothing more.

We wanted to create online applications with all the bells and whistles that a desktop version would have, while being able to provide an easily recognizable environment to the end user. A desktop environment does this and also allows us to easily offer many applications within a single web page.

The first challenge was to find a javascript coding library. Searches on Google turned up several libraries that would help make this a possibility, and in the end Ext JS seemed a good fit for us.

When Ext JS released their desktop demo in 2007 the potential to extend it further was easy to see. So beginning in the fall of 2007 I started creating these extensions of the Ext JS widgets for this desktop:

• Ext.ux.StartMenuTool, extends Ext.menu.Item
• Ext.ux.StartMenu, extends Ext.menu.Menu
• Ext.ux.Taskbar, extends Ext.util.Observable
• Ext.ux.QuickStartPanel, extends Ext.BoxComponent

This thread in the Ext Js forum can be viewed for additional information.