21.01.2025 21:18:35 adventures in9 <adventures...@gmail.com>: > Sirjojri had some interface ideas he wanted to use the Pinephone as a > platform to test on.
Just in case, I did a survey back then, and published the results. Here's the link again: http://sirjofri.de/oat/survey.pdf > 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. I believe that an intuitive UI for a Plan 9 phone/touch device must be developed (designed) from scratch, learning from existing solutions (iOS, Android, etc), but not copying them blindly. We should also not just blindly copy the existing Plan 9 mechanisms (plumbing, chording), but find a good way to do that with the limitations we have on a touch device. I can even imagine that devdraw might even be too slow/limited, but I would still start with that > 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. A plan 9 phone would certainly do this! It should be part of the whole system like any other machine on the network. The UI part is only a user interface to that whole system -- ideally it can do as much as any existing plan 9 UI we have today. sirjofri ------------------------------------------ 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T937367c51de50ce3-Ma7ef2de0e98391e40762b1cf Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription
