Re: [9fans] GSoC proposal: Alternative window system

2014-03-19 Thread Paul Lalonde
Multiple displays and display & dpi awareness in acme would make my day! Multi-display looks easy - we just need handling for adding a new "row", which is already handily abstracted. Fitt's law aware mouse movement would be nice too, particularly on large screens. You could slightly "trap" the mo

Re: [9fans] GSoC proposal: Alternative window system

2014-03-19 Thread Bakul Shah
On Wed, 19 Mar 2014 04:36:34 EDT Caleb Malchik wrote: > For my project, I would build a tiling window manager similar to dwm > (what I use on Linux). I think a dwm-style interface that could be > controlled from the keyboard would provide a nice contrast to what we > already have with rio, and

Re: [9fans] GSoC proposal: Alternative window system

2014-03-19 Thread Jeff Sickel
On Mar 19, 2014, at 10:49 AM, Anthony Sorace wrote: >> given that that port was done many releases of ios ago, it >> is likly that a different step 0 would be required: bring >> the ios drawterm port back to life. > > Certainly. It doesn't currently build. Old binaries start up but > quickly cr

Re: [9fans] GSoC proposal: Alternative window system

2014-03-19 Thread Aram Hăvărneanu
On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 3:17 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: > On Wed Mar 19 10:14:26 EDT 2014, ara...@mgk.ro wrote: >> What did old Oberon have? >> > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oberon_(operating_system) > > - erik Yes, I know what Oberon is, I even used it. Peter mentioned something "old Oberon" h

Re: [9fans] GSoC proposal: Alternative window system

2014-03-19 Thread Anthony Sorace
> given that that port was done many releases of ios ago, it > is likly that a different step 0 would be required: bring > the ios drawterm port back to life. Certainly. It doesn't currently build. Old binaries start up but quickly crash. From memory, I don't believe keyboard input currently works

Re: [9fans] GSoC proposal: Alternative window system

2014-03-19 Thread erik quanstrom
On Wed Mar 19 11:36:39 EDT 2014, a...@9srv.net wrote: > > we don't drive any touch hardware, so in the interest of > > success, i would not be interested in a gsoc project that > > required as step 0: identify, purchase and write driver for > > enabling hardware. > > If someone were interested in

Re: [9fans] GSoC proposal: Alternative window system

2014-03-19 Thread Anthony Sorace
> I'm still voting for touch interface Not to be pedantic, but note that there isn't any "voting" here. Students come up with a proposal for something they'd be interested in working on for the summer, and the prospective mentors order them and fill however many slots we get (short version). I'd l

Re: [9fans] GSoC proposal: Alternative window system

2014-03-19 Thread erik quanstrom
On Wed Mar 19 11:33:58 EDT 2014, a...@9srv.net wrote: > > I'm still voting for touch interface > > Not to be pedantic, but note that there isn't any "voting" > here. Students come up with a proposal for something > they'd be interested in working on for the summer, and > the prospective mentors o

Re: [9fans] GSoC proposal: Alternative window system

2014-03-19 Thread Anthony Sorace
> we don't drive any touch hardware, so in the interest of > success, i would not be interested in a gsoc project that > required as step 0: identify, purchase and write driver for > enabling hardware. If someone were interested in doing this in the short term, the best option is likely tying it t

Re: [9fans] GSoC proposal: Alternative window system

2014-03-19 Thread erik quanstrom
On Wed Mar 19 11:01:54 EDT 2014, beg...@gmail.com wrote: > I think Plan B / Octopus's omero does these things already. I'm still > voting for touch interface we don't drive any touch hardware, so in the interest of success, i would not be interested in a gsoc project that required as step 0: ident

Re: [9fans] GSoC proposal: Alternative window system

2014-03-19 Thread Bence Fábián
I think Plan B / Octopus's omero does these things already. I'm still voting for touch interface 2014-03-19 15:17 GMT+01:00, erik quanstrom : > On Wed Mar 19 10:14:26 EDT 2014, ara...@mgk.ro wrote: >> What did old Oberon have? >> > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oberon_(operating_system) > > - eri

Re: [9fans] GSoC proposal: Alternative window system

2014-03-19 Thread erik quanstrom
On Wed Mar 19 10:14:26 EDT 2014, ara...@mgk.ro wrote: > What did old Oberon have? > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oberon_(operating_system) - erik

Re: [9fans] GSoC proposal: Alternative window system

2014-03-19 Thread Aram Hăvărneanu
What did old Oberon have? -- Aram Hăvărneanu

Re: [9fans] GSoC proposal: Alternative window system

2014-03-19 Thread Peter A. Cejchan
It would be nice to have something like old Oberon OS had; I think acme was inspired in part by it (I may be wrong). Some time ago, I had some ideas on windowing design; were anyone interested, they're here: http/www.gli.cas.cz/home/cejchan/plan9/newUI.pdf http/www.gli.cas.cz/home/cejchan/plan9/ne

Re: [9fans] GSoC proposal: Alternative window system

2014-03-19 Thread Shane Morris
Cohesive compilation of hacks? On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 7:56 PM, Bence Fábián wrote: > We already have a lot of hacks to make rio tiling. > In my opinion the most interesting/worthwhile > projects mentioned on that wiki is to make things > touchscreen friendly. > > > 2014-03-19 9:36 GMT+01:00 Ca

Re: [9fans] GSoC proposal: Alternative window system

2014-03-19 Thread Bence Fábián
We already have a lot of hacks to make rio tiling. In my opinion the most interesting/worthwhile projects mentioned on that wiki is to make things touchscreen friendly. 2014-03-19 9:36 GMT+01:00 Caleb Malchik : > Greetings, > > I am a student interested in participating in GSoC under Plan 9. My