From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: anothy@cosym.net
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] X on Plan 9
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Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 15:03:58 -0400
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okay, here goes: X apps i care about, and breifly why:
	Netscape
no, i don't plan on porting this locally, but i find Charon
to be great for ~95% of the web pages i look at. one notable
exception is my bank; when i need to get there, i use vnc.
	Everybuddy
an ICQ/AIM/etc. client. i know it's juvenile, but i work
with high school kids alot, and this is huge with them. i'd
been using this via vnc.
	Palm emulator
at least until i figure out how to import/export from/to
regular text files. painful remotely, since i have to dump
the Palm's memory, move it over my slow modem, use vnc over
that same slow modem to use the (slow) emulator, and move
stuff back.
	xpic
which, incidently, i've already seen ported to Plan 9. i'd
been using this via vnc (but not much).
	xv
only because most of (all?) the tools in 2nd edition's 9.1
are missing in 3rd edition. i've been using this via vnc.
	some mp3 player
which was just a wrapper to mpg123, which's already been
ported. this was why, a while ago, i asked about the Labs
folk releasing their audio players, even without the PAC
bits - it'd be easy enough to plug mpg123 into them. and i
really like agui. i've been doing without this, since
playing audio over a remote box's speaker isn't useful.
	9wm and 9term
only because i have to use X at all. i used to also use
framemaker and staroffice, but i havn't had any reason to
for over a year. i think that's it. when i had a Unix box,
there were a few games, too, but i don't remember which.
-α.