RE: [9fans] Anyone to try to convert Acme to full UI (w/graphics)

[<cej@gli.cas.cz>]

thanks for your explanation of your point. however, don't you feel that a single big command window with probably some king of addressing the commands where to go would be more elegant that the taglines? maybe one could open her/his guidefile in the cmd-window using them from there, not via snarf-paste into the proper tagline... maybe i'm a bit biased by using long pipelines of commands that sometime don't fit within the tagline, scrolling there is somewhat problematic. also, having opened 20+files, taglines are almost equivalent to a (non-scrollable) list of open windows.
Not to make you confused: I like acme very much, just trying to share some ideas that may finally render as idiotic/unnecessarry/inconsistent/whatever...

thanks, regards,
++pac.


-----Original Message-----
From: 9fans-bounces+cej=gli.cas.cz@cse.psu.edu [mailto:9fans-bounces+cej=gli.cas.cz@cse.psu.edu] On Behalf Of Alexander Sychev
Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2006 5:26 PM
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs
Subject: Re: [9fans] Anyone to try to convert Acme to full UI (w/graphics)

Hi!

On Tue, 24 Oct 2006 09:55:46 +0400, <cej@gli.cas.cz> wrote:

>
>
>> What exactly do you mean?
>
> getting rid of menus, and of rio, if possible. wopukld also *love* to  
> see a single command window instead of taglines (maybe my fault, but I  
> can only move to thhe beginning or end, but not really scroll through  
> the tagline)
>
> i had on my mind something like Native Oberon (*NOT* bluebottle ) UI...  
> then, acme window could také the whole screen and windows would become  
> panes uinder acme. onme would get an Ui coupled w/text-editor  
> immediatelly.
>
> now, the ui philosophy semms to me to be a bit split... between rio and  
> acme,
> e.g, we must redefine 'cd' to use it under acme ...

For what? If you would like to use a terminal, you should use 'win'.
I'm afraid I will fail your wishes.
I think Acme has a quite consistent UI with lot of wonderful ideas, I'm  
just going to add a graphics support and make some usability improvements  
I suppose are helpful (like a fullscreen mode, rows, maybe multiline tags,  
etc. ).
The backward compatibility with Acme is going to be stored as far as  
possible.

> (my inspiration was: i would like to write a simple program to do  
> measurements within an image, and send the values (in pixels) to an acme  
> 'pane' (window, if you like). would really like to do that with acme,  
> with commands instead of menus)

I think a such kind of things will be implemented.
>
> thanks,
> ++pac.
>



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