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To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
From: phaet0n <phaet0n@hotmail.com>
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Subject: [9fans] GUI toolkit for Plan 9
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 09:58:36 +0000
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Hello all,

I have a few questions.

1) I am wondering if anyone is developing,
   or planning, a GUI toolkit for Plan 9?
   If not, does anyone have any good design
   ideas, especially centring around Plan 9
   features? Are there any good papers on
   this topic?

2) Someone mentioned freetype a while back.
   Is there any progress on this front? It
   would be really nice if a freetype server
   could publish Plan 9 font bitmaps from
   TrueType or Type 1 font files. Not that
   there's anything wrong with lucida...

3) I asked a while back, and got no reply,
   about Plan 9's object format for a project.
   I presume read the source applied. That
   project fizzled, so I'm generating C
   instead. I've been playing with GCC 3.0
   on Linux, and I'm pretty impressed. Is
   anyone working on getting GNU binutils
   and so GCC to generate Plan 9 objects?
   That would be a great first step in
   getting all that `other code' working.

Awaiting discussion...
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