From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 11:33:08 -0800 From: bride of excession To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] interesting potential targets for plan 9 and/or inferno Message-ID: <20070306113308.09953366@dsl092-187-181.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net> In-Reply-To: <13426df10702260708i7be0cd7bs49f7eda72c6935ea@mail.gmail.com> References: <13426df10702260708i7be0cd7bs49f7eda72c6935ea@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 17cedfe6-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 15:10:08 GMT rminnich@gmail.com (ron minnich) wrote: > On 2/26/07, erik quanstrom wrote: > > plan 9 is having trouble keeping the converted. why would > > adding one more layer of goo to the gnu goo stack convert > > the hardened of heart? > > Because the first thing that most people say when I show them rio is > 'yuck'. And, in most cases, they don't stop saying 'yuck'.Acme does > not help. > > Sorry, but most people hate the Plan 9 GUI. It is off-putting enough > that they are not that interested in seeing the beauty of it all. > > It seems a shame to keep losing people because of one aspect of Plan > 9. For me, anyway, rio is not the only piece of this system that is > important. In fact, for what i'm doing with it, rio does not matter at > all. > > I realize there are many differences of opinion on this issue ... > > thanks > ron I am so glad to see I'm not alone on this issue. Much as I love plan9, to me Rio is just a very cumbersome and eye gouging way to view images, and it is undoubtedly why plan9 remains obscure.