From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <54DDCC2E-B695-4DA7-B2EB-9A20319172E4@fastmail.fm> References: <43BE8922-D7CC-4DCB-A968-14A42CD8912B@9srv.net> <54DDCC2E-B695-4DA7-B2EB-9A20319172E4@fastmail.fm> Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 15:22:22 +0200 Message-ID: From: yy To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 GSoC projects selected Topicbox-Message-UUID: d8ce05e2-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 2011/4/29 Ethan Grammatikidis : > > On 27 Apr 2011, at 6:47 pm, Anthony Sorace wrote: >> >> =95 Unification of X11 code and wsys device, by Jes=FAs Gal=E1n L=F3pez = [1] > > [...] >> >> [1] >> http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2011/yiyus= /1 > > I'm a bit curious about this one but all I get from the link is "This > proposal is not made public, and you are not the student who submitted th= e > proposal, nor are you a mentor for the organization it was submitted to." > > > You can read a short abstract here: http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2011/yiyus/22001 The main idea is to avoid the duplication of xlib dependent code in inferno, p9p, 9vx and drawterm and write a wsys device to use the window manager of the host system through a file server similar to rio(4). If the new x11 code will be a library or some sort of p9p's devdraw(1) and if the wsys device will be an inferno/drawterm/9vx kernel device or an external program serving 9P are open questions yet. Feel free to ask if you want to know more. --=20 - yiyus || JGL .