From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-2" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: RE: [9fans] Anyone to try to convert Acme to full UI (w/graphics) Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 06:29:25 +0200 Message-ID: In-Reply-To: From: To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Topicbox-Message-UUID: d4700e3c-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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=3Dgli.cas.cz@cse.psu.edu = [mailto:9fans-bounces+cej=3Dgli.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, 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 = =20 > 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... =20 > then, acme window could tak=E9 the whole screen and windows would = become =20 > panes uinder acme. onme would get an Ui coupled w/text-editor =20 > immediatelly. > > now, the ui philosophy semms to me to be a bit split... between rio = and =20 > 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 =20 I suppose are helpful (like a fullscreen mode, rows, maybe multiline = tags, =20 etc. ). The backward compatibility with Acme is going to be stored as far as =20 possible. > (my inspiration was: i would like to write a simple program to do =20 > measurements within an image, and send the values (in pixels) to an = acme =20 > '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. > --=20 Best regards, santucco