Re: [9fans] GSOC: Drawterm for the iPhone

["Fco. J. Ballesteros" <nemo@lsub.org>]

o/live assumes that in many cases you may have
a mouse with just one button and some way to
issue mouse-3 clicks. (eg., touch pads).
The result was the circular menu implementation
and a different interaction language.

However, it does not consider multitouch at all.

>  From: ericvh@gmail.com
>  To: 9fans@9fans.net
>  Reply-To: 9fans@9fans.net
>  Date: Tue Mar 31 17:00:43 CET 2009
>  Subject: Re: [9fans] GSOC: Drawterm for the iPhone
>
>  On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 9:36 AM, J.R. Mauro <jrm8005@gmail.com> wrote:
>  > On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 8:01 AM, Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com> wrote:
>  >> The fact that rio and/or acme have a limited usage model with such a device
>  >> and/or multitouch in general is a shame -- wouldn't it be nice to fix that.
>  >
>  > This is a very good point. As much as I like rio, I can't help but be
>  > aggravated by it sometimes, and it would be nice to have someone take
>  > a fresh look at interacting with it and possibly solve some of the
>  > shortcomings.
>  >
>
>  I think the key here is devices like the iPhone beg a different model
>  -- rio and ACME were developed for graphical, mouse/keyboard setups
>  (with relatively large screens I might add) -- smaller devices or
>  devices with different models (like set top boxes or game consoles)
>  really require a different set of tools/apps. I think this is one of
>  the things that was interesting about the Plan B approach -- different
>  front-ends for similar back ends. I doubt anyone wants to use the
>  iphone as a developer workstation, but it might be nice to make it an
>  additional screen for faces, or as the student points out and
>  additional user-interface to someone's work environment.
>
>  As far as fixing rio and ACME, I would urge anyone looking at that to
>  come up with a complementary solution as opposed to messing with the
>  existing model. I don't see any reason why alternative interfaces
>  can't co-exist which support keyboard-only interaction (ron's smackme
>  comes to mind as well as wmii's model) as well as multitouch on
>  laptops (actually the iphone's new cut/paste model might work for
>  multitouch trackpads -- and while not as natural as the existing
>  chording method might make ACME useable when one finds oneself without
>  a three button mouse handy). Another avenue to pursue is looking at
>  using gestures to replace chords -- it seems like pinch and expand
>  might be natural replacements for cut and paste. I don't think the
>  community or the system benefits form limiting our options (but lets
>  keep them options -- I still prefer chording when possible ;)
>
>   -eric