IRIX Interactive Desktop

This was succeeded by Indigo Magic Desktop, introduced in 1993 with IRIX 5.1 on the Indy multimedia workstation.

Beginning in 2000, Eric Masson, a passionate user of SGI systems, began work on a recreation of IRIX Interactive Desktop for Linux.

[5] Indigo Magic Desktop is intended to promote easy access to multimedia functionality, and provide user-customizable environments.

[6] The environment is based on audio cues for the start and finish of an operation, intelligent windows to track recently visited directories, and multiple virtual desktops grouped by function.

The Toolchest is a menu (normally located on the desktop) that shows which applications are installed on a particular Silicon Graphics workstation.