Re: [9fans] missing applications

[Harri Haataja <harriha@mail.student.oulu.fi>]

I can't quite imagine and list all the things that would be needed
before I could switch desktops. I'm sure I would be flexible with a lot
of things.

A few immediate things that appear to stop me from even trying to keep
plan9 on the side other than as a curiousity:

- Good tiling window management. I won't go back to handling any window
  borders with a mouse.
- Threaded news & mail reader(s).
- Yes, a web browser, as I read a lot. No need for more features than
  eg dillo has. I'm aware this may already exist. But an easy way to
  edit (real) wiki's and throw text into them from other web pages would
  be neccessary. As a dream, a browser with decent editing in forms :)
- Perhaps something like tor, a filtering proxy, NNTP leaf node, NAT for
  others, neat (snmp?) monitoring apps, packet filtering etc might be a
  way to sneak it to some lone servers.

Outside that, good terminal emulation with ssh would be one bridge I'm
not sure that is available. I didn't find an irc client that wasn't a
complete mess to use either. But I haven't looked too deeply. So far,
Inferno has seemed more interesting as there's a much lower threshold in
running that. It is a fair deal of work to dig yourself into that, too.

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