Sirjojri had some interface ideas he wanted to use the Pinephone as a platform to test on.
When we were discussing it over on the 9fans discord, it was interesting to see other people chime in with what they considered essential for an interface to be "Plan 9". Like using the 3 side buttons to do mouse chording for cut/paste. Some other interesting ideas to come up were how exposing the phone's hardware as 9P onto a local grid could be used. Like making phone calls using the mic and speakers of a laptop bound together with the cell radio of the phone. Or reading and writing SMS texts on a pc and sending them through a file interface on the phone mounted over a local network. On Tue, Jan 21, 2025 at 11:28 AM Kurt H Maier via 9fans <9fans@9fans.net> wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 20, 2025 at 10:38:42PM -0500, o...@eigenstate.org wrote: > > Quoth Kurt H Maier via 9fans <9fans@9fans.net>: > > > > > > The problem with the original Hellaphone implementation is that it is > > > nailed to the Android APIs of the era, and Google likes to replace those > > > approximately weekly. Following their documents, it took me forever to > > > get working, but most of the work was on the Android side of things > > > (specifically rolling back to whatever supported APIs I needed, almost > > > all of which were one or two generations behind). > > > > > > > The other problem, of course, is that the plan 9 user interface > > will not work well on phones. No user interface will work well > > on phones, but the vanilla Plan 9 interface will be spectacularly > > bad. > > > > So, even if you get the Plan 9 userspace onto the phone, you've > > still got a great deal of work to make it usable, and you haven't > > successfully gotten rid of the trash under you. > > The hellaphone came with some reasonably useful tools to work ok on a > touchscreen, including an onscreen keyboard that worked better than the > bitsy one. I vaguely recall the HTC device it targeted had a slide-out > keyboard as well. > > khm ------------------------------------------ 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T937367c51de50ce3-M2d68f16a0633d7e5f416c096 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription
