From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 13:29:37 +0300 From: Harri Haataja Subject: Re: [9fans] missing applications In-reply-to: <7d3530220607241322j6909444eo2d2e61d55a02e122@mail.gmail.com> To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Message-id: <20060725102937.GF1836@XTL.antioffline.net> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline References: <20060724160009.A640A5AF70@mail.cse.psu.edu> <53f976bd0607240938i79313aa5nf6e33e176868a2bb@mail.gmail.com> <44C51F7A.4050604@lanl.gov> <7d3530220607241253h40ec710ev48b2ffee8dd02db6@mail.gmail.com> <20060724141623.O3247@orthanc.ca> <7d3530220607241322j6909444eo2d2e61d55a02e122@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 8c3ce388-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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. -- Java is a WORA language! (Write Once, Run Away) -- James Vandenberg (on progstone@egroups.com) & quoted by David Rush on comp.lang.scheme