Plan 9 is applying to GSoC again!
The application period closes on Monday, and our formal application is in. As
is the case every year, the most critical part of an application is the org's
ideas page[1]. We'd love additional fleshed-out contributions for that. Since
we had a little confusion o
An idea that would fall under rio and interfaces;
Replace mouse with movement. Have the usual X and Y, but also add a Z, which
would be equivalent to something like pinch-zoom on a phone. And also have
rotation around an axis, so that a mouse wheel would be interpreted as rotating
around the
6 degrees aren't enough, even 9 degrees wouldn't be enough, we need a
truly hypercubic input device IMHO. so far, mice aren't it.
On 2/18/22, adventures...@gmail.com wrote:
> An idea that would fall under rio and interfaces;
>
> Replace mouse with movement. Have the usual X and Y, but also add
If you really want to future proof it, make sure to add a time axis, for
potential time traveling mice.
But to be serious, the backend stuff assuming there is 1 monitor, a 3 button
mouse, and a standard keyboard is going to hold back any interface development.
I would just be happy if there wa
