I once used octopus.
It uses inferno as the middle layer of graphics, which made the
octopus somewhat complicated, I felt.   I'm not against the inferno,
however, octopus could make the graphics much easier and simpler.
Therefore, using inferno made the purpose unclear I thought.
That's the reason I left from the octopus.

sorry nemo.

Kenji


2018-03-08 21:38 GMT+09:00 Rudolf Sykora <rudolf.sykora@gmail.com>:

> On 3 March 2018 at 20:27, Francisco J Ballesteros <nemo@lsub.org> wrote:
> > Octopus would run on Plan 9, although we used inferno for (hosted)
> terminals,
> > and it used Op as the protocol (a descendant of 9p like everyone else),
>
> Ok. So does anybody use octopus these days?
> Why not? (Who wouldn't like a ubiquitous environment?)
> What do the authors of octopus use instead these days? (Clive seems
> to me to serve a completely different purpose.)
>
> It seems the octopus environment uses a tile-like management
> of its windows, unlike rio, where windows can overlap.
> Has anybody done any experiments to arrive at a rio-like feel?
>
> How is it with the need for inferno?
> (I tried to install octopus now on 9front. Unfortunately it asks me
> too many questions I am, at this moment, unable to answer---I do
> not understand them.)
>
> Thanks
> Ruda
>
>