From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <031c2034128a6c80b1ecec872096e274@terzarima.net> From: Charles Forsyth Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 18:58:20 +0000 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] interesting potential targets for plan 9 and/or inferno In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 1510cf12-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 >neither rio or acme will work well on a cell phone. i think that's probably true of rio, but while i had an ipaq running inferno, i used acme exclusively and i'm not so sure about the unsuitability of its overall approach. i was using it without modification and although there were undoubtedly things that could change to make that smoother on such a device, i thought it was much less frustrating than my Palm Pilot (old style), in the sense that acme gave an integrated feel whereas Palm had the usual apps approach: `the screen is an address book' (ie, mostly text), `the screen is a diary' (ie, mostly text), `the screen is a notebook' (ie, almost entirely text), and `the screen is a sketchpad' (ie, caught you out there). i could have several things of different type in acme frames--possibly an untyped user interface is more dynamic, compared to the `one at a time' feel of the Palm. so many user interfaces got stuck in the mould of the Xerox desktop metaphor, and have mouldered there ever since.