From: Anthony Sorace <a@9srv.net>
To: 9fans <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] iOS drawterm
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2020 10:25:44 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5EC1C11A-69EB-4248-B8F1-D348F70A89CA@9srv.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <A7B5E216-61CA-423C-9B3E-511E90F0B7CC@gmail.com>
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VNC is great for what it is, and I certainly wouldn’t object to seeing vncs upgraded, but it is not a replacement for drawterm. It does not expose local devices in a plan 9 friendly way. In addition to just using drawterm as a straightforward terminal, an iOS version would be a very good platform for playing around with exposing other capabilities that the device has to plan 9. I played around with this a little bit with the original port. VNC buys us none of this.
> On Mar 25, 2020, at 04:21, Kim Lassila <kim.lassila@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Mar 25, 2020, at 8:19 AM, Anthony Sorace <a@9srv.net> wrote:
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>> With iOS getting first-class mouse pointer support, I’m looking at the iOS drawterm port again. Has anyone touched this since the old GSoC project bit rotted out?
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> Drawterm is quite slow at reading and writing pixels on the screen. I learned this when I started recording screen in Plan 9 (https://github.com/9d0/screencast).
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> Instead of porting drawterm to different platforms I would like to see vncs improved to support the latest version of the Remote Framebuffer Protocol (RFC 6143). This would allow a standard VNC client to connect to a Plan 9 terminal, support screen resizing, local mouse cursor, and deliver all key strokes and mouse chords accurately. VNC is optimized to work over a large variety of different networks including high latency links and it will therefore offer a better user experience than drawterm, especially over wireless.
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> Kim
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-03-25 17:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-03-25 6:19 Anthony Sorace
2020-03-25 11:19 ` [9fans] " Kim Lassila
2020-03-25 12:41 ` Jeremy O'Brien
2020-03-25 16:32 ` Kim Lassila
2020-03-25 17:40 ` ori
2020-03-25 17:25 ` Anthony Sorace [this message]
2020-03-25 17:49 ` Ethan Gardener
2020-03-27 12:25 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2020-03-25 17:51 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2020-03-27 5:51 ` Anthony Sorace
2020-03-27 12:21 ` Ethan Gardener
2020-03-31 8:52 ` yy
2020-03-31 10:58 ` Ethan Gardener
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