Jinnee desktop, review, installation and configuration under MiNT

In this video I am continuing a mini series-in-a-series where I look at several Desktops for the Atari Line of computers under MiNT, and we select the one to use as our future home.

This week we:

- take our Jinnee desktop out for a spin
- Install and configure Jinnee desktop
- show a new cool technique for creating an xboot configuration

For instructions on where to find the HDD image and how to use it under Hatari,

This video is part of a series. Previous videos in this series are:

_Thing Desktop, review installation and configuration under MiNT _

_Ease Desktop, review installation and configuration under MiNT_

_Atari Falcon,Hatari and Videl graphics_

_how to install and configure MiNT in 2023_

Chapters
00:00 - Introduction
01:00 - Feature tour
14:01 - Desktop notes
14:40 - Icon Manager
17:57 - Installation and configuration
21:31 - Xboot config
23:29 - Outro

Links

_Atari Abandonware Page_

[macmacintouch]

Another great clip. The new disk image seems to be missing on your page .

[Storm_.]

I'm sure I left a fairly lengthy comment about MyAES and Jinnee compatibility... Seems to have gone missing 😢

[paulwratt]

TeraDesk has as much Icon Management as Jinnee (and others), but it does not have much of a frontend to edit them, so all the "best stuff" is only configurable in the configuration file, and even then some options are not documented, you have to know they exist (or look at the appropriate section in the source that deals with load associations - there are 2 different sections in the config file) - It was because of seeing Jinnee on NAES that I started creating large 256 color icon resources for TeraDesk, and had to make reduced sets to run on actual hardware.

[paulwratt]

That transparency is a part of the AES (I believe), MyAES functionality added a few years ago, works for any "window" objust, but turned off by default. - If you are willing to help out with testing, I am sure Olivier would be willing to look at those icon render issues, as you can see from the video, that half rendered icon was under a dialog.

[welliben]

Jinnee never worked completely correctly with Mint iirc, with Magic though it was the best desktop around, my favourite desktop ever. I thought it was better than Windows and Mac desktops at the time. So sad the source code was lost.. :(