sirjofri wrote in <4c53aeb8-4e5d-4f84-be3a-20d8e80a1...@sirjofri.de>: |21.01.2025 21:27:08 Ron Minnich <rminn...@p9f.org>: |> 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. | |That's one of the most important reasons why I would try to be as compat\ |ible with existing plan 9 interfaces (like devdraw). Ideally, a program \ |that's developed for a plan 9 phone would "just work" within a rio \ |window on a standard terminal. You could just rcpu into your phone, \ |run the "address book" phone app, and that would behave like a standard \ |plan 9 program (just with bigger buttons and more touch optimized, \ |I guess). The latter differences could be worked on by developing a \ |context-aware UI system, but that's also very complicated. | |I have a thinkpad with a touchscreen that works quite well with 9front \ |btw. A touch-optimized phone app would ideally "just work" on that laptop. | |Regarding modem: easy tethering, out of the box. You could also make \ |your phone an easy VPN bridge to your home network.
btw i wonder if you all have heard of sxmo. I long for that.. (It is Linux, of course, and still quite fat. But at least it is a real Linux..) --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt) | |In Fall and Winter, feel "The Dropbear Bard"s pint(er). | |The banded bear |without a care, |Banged on himself for e'er and e'er | |Farewell, dear collar bear
