Re: [9fans] Small program "PlanKey" (paraphrase of DOSKey)

[Anthony Sorace <anothy@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 3:49 AM,  <cej@gli.cas.cz> wrote:

> How about turning acme to universal UI, in the style of old Oberon?

Acme very deeply believes that everything's just text. It would be
substantial effort to get it to be any more universal than that. I'm
aware of at least two independent efforts by very smart people who
stalled at about the same place.

>From a UI design perspective, it's not clear what it ought to look
like. More strongly, I'm not really convinced there *is* a good way
for a UI like that to work. You'd have all the problems the X11 tiled
window managers have, and if you don't separately provide for either
"floating" windows (as some of them do) or horribly throw tiles
around, things like viewing large postscript documents is going to be
hella disruptive.

I love acme, but I think rio's the right starting place for GUI
things. Maybe just move the menu into a pre-populated tag, similar to
Acme's.