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From: Anthony Sorace <a@9srv.net>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] GSoC proposal: Alternative window system
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 11:35:29 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0D25EF85-4272-4996-9F87-7E1C919CA308@9srv.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <900a10b82860e0680435c4ceaaa58b03@brasstown.quanstro.net>

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> 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 to reviving the iOS drawterm
port. One could also do some interesting UI experiments
with drawterm from laptops with multitouch devices; that
would be less ambitious, but you'd get past step 0 quicker.

Anthony


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  reply	other threads:[~2014-03-19 15:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-03-19  8:36 Caleb Malchik
2014-03-19  8:56 ` Bence Fábián
2014-03-19  9:01   ` Shane Morris
2014-03-19 13:46     ` Peter A. Cejchan
2014-03-19 14:13       ` Aram Hăvărneanu
2014-03-19 14:17         ` erik quanstrom
2014-03-19 15:00           ` Bence Fábián
2014-03-19 15:26             ` erik quanstrom
2014-03-19 15:35               ` Anthony Sorace [this message]
2014-03-19 15:38                 ` erik quanstrom
2014-03-19 15:49                   ` Anthony Sorace
2014-03-19 16:16                     ` Jeff Sickel
2014-03-19 15:31             ` Anthony Sorace
2014-03-19 15:35               ` erik quanstrom
2014-03-19 16:16           ` Aram Hăvărneanu
2014-03-19 19:02 ` Bakul Shah
2014-03-20  0:05   ` Paul Lalonde

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