[dev] [OT] ubuntu moves to wayland from xorg

2010-11-05 Thread Szabolcs Nagy
they try to leave xorg+gnome for wayland+unity seems ubuntu follows apple: own gui, drop x, hw accelerated eyecandy http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/551 also on /. http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/11/05/137212/Ubuntu-Dumps-X-For-Unity-On-Wayland

Re: [dev] [OT] ubuntu moves to wayland from xorg

2010-11-05 Thread Kurt H Maier
the less they shit on useful software the better. I have no problem with them living in their own little sandbox. -- # Kurt H Maier

Re: [dev] [OT] ubuntu moves to wayland from xorg

2010-11-05 Thread Anselm R Garbe
On 5 November 2010 16:29, Szabolcs Nagy wrote: > they try to leave xorg+gnome for wayland+unity > > seems ubuntu follows apple: own gui, drop x, hw accelerated eyecandy > > http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/551 > also on /. > http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/11/05/137212/Ubuntu-Dumps-X-Fo

Re: [dev] [OT] ubuntu moves to wayland from xorg

2010-11-05 Thread Jens Staal
Well wayland seems pretty cool to me. Good that someone takes the plunge and tries to implement it. Another cool OT news report: LLVM/Clang can compile the linux kernel: http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/cfe-dev/2010-October/011804.html I saw somewhere an alternative Android NDK with LLVM static

Re: [dev] [OT] ubuntu moves to wayland from xorg

2010-11-05 Thread Peter John Hartman
Hi all, On a (slightly) related off-topic note, I'm about to purchase one of those iPad ripoffs (zt180), and I'm curious to find out how far one can go without Android on it. In particular, I suspect a suckless project is in order to: 1. Emulate the onscreen keyboard (at a lowish X level presuma

Re: [dev] [OT] ubuntu moves to wayland from xorg

2010-11-05 Thread Kurt H Maier
On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 12:23 PM, Peter John Hartman wrote: > 1. Emulate the onscreen keyboard (at a lowish X level presumably, but an > ncurses gpm-style cli would be pretty super-rad). There is already a suckless onscreen keyboard; I don't know why it's not in the tools repo at suckless.org. I

Re: [dev] [OT] ubuntu moves to wayland from xorg

2010-11-05 Thread Jens Staal
For those that might be interested in the c++ enbling modifications to Android NDK I found the URL again http://www.crystax.net/android/ndk.php Sort of the wrong list, I know, but it was in the context of Clang and a hypothetical use in sta.li that I got thinking about it. 2010/11/5 Jens Staal :

Re: [dev] [OT] ubuntu moves to wayland from xorg

2010-11-05 Thread pancake
I started a similar project for the n900 with debian and a modified dwm. I find it quite useful and productive to use dwm in a touchscreen..but certainly..not many finger friendly apps out there... - Original message - > Hi all, > > On a (slightly) related off-topic note, I'm about to p

Re: [dev] [OT] ubuntu moves to wayland from xorg

2010-11-05 Thread pancake
- Original message - > On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 12:23 PM, Peter John Hartman > wrote: > > 1. Emulate the onscreen keyboard (at a lowish X level presumably, but > > an ncurses gpm-style cli would be pretty super-rad). > > There is already a suckless onscreen keyboard; I don't know why it's >

Re: [dev] [OT] ubuntu moves to wayland from xorg

2010-11-05 Thread Kurt H Maier
On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 12:51 PM, pancake wrote: >> There is already a suckless onscreen keyboard; I don't know why it's >> not in the tools repo at suckless.org.  I think pancake wrote it? > > Uhm.. Didnt knew that..but i did not wrote it :P I searched my IRC logs. It was Gottox: http://s01.de/

Re: [dev] [OT] ubuntu moves to wayland from xorg

2010-11-05 Thread Jacob Todd
Someone should touchscreen-ify acme. On Nov 5, 2010 12:48 PM, "pancake" wrote: > I started a similar project for the n900 with debian and a modified dwm. I find it quite useful and productive to use dwm in a touchscreen..but certainly..not many finger friendly apps out there... > > - Original

Re: [dev] [OT] ubuntu moves to wayland from xorg

2010-11-05 Thread Josh Rickmar
On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 01:04:59PM -0400, Jacob Todd wrote: > Someone should touchscreen-ify acme. Yeah, make it do different things depending on which finger you use to touch the text.

Re: [dev] [OT] ubuntu moves to wayland from xorg

2010-11-05 Thread Kurt H Maier
On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Josh Rickmar wrote: > Yeah, make it do different things depending on which finger you use > to touch the text. There's really only one gesture Acme deserves, but it involves a specific finger. Multitouch is not required. -- # Kurt H Maier

[dev] anyone played with mkinit?

2010-11-05 Thread Jens Staal
http://9fans.net/archive/2009/10/375 https://lug.rose-hulman.edu/svn/misc/trunk/mkinit/ apparently still with bashisms due to issues with rc (does not mention which) but seems cool and perhaps something for sta.li?