this being plan 9, one could build a phone with no "UI" to start, rcpu into it, and operate the modem. i.e. develop some aspects of the ui on your laptop.
I wonder if that would be easier. On Tue, Jan 21, 2025 at 12:18 PM adventures in9 <adventures...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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-M263448fc160b06adeba1af8d Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription
