Ever wish you had more GUI programs on Plan 9 to show off to your friends? Do you think Mothra represents the very pinnacle of UI design? Then have I got a program for you...
I've spent the last day or so whipping up a quick libpanel application to read USENET via nntpfs. You can read newsgroups (not threaded, yet) and post messages (no followups yet), all from the comfort of a program that wouldn't look too out of place in any fashionable UNIX establishment. Screenshots at http://csplan9.rit.edu/users/john/uwn.png The source is available in /n/sources/contrib/john/uwn.tgz John -- "I've tried programming Ruby on Rails, following TechCrunch in my RSS reader, and drinking absinthe. It doesn't work. I'm going back to C, Hunter S. Thompson, and cheap whiskey." -- Ted Dziuba