From: Lucio De Re <lucio.dere@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] UI design | enhancements.
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2019 05:54:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJQ9t7i9A73-xu76YN3Luj755ijjYbpC0L+THYkQkX2v=NcJUA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D56FE5764B056A891B23A40187C69979@ewsd.inri.net>
Here's one of many small issues I would like explained or adjusted: I
can half run rio (p9p's rio) under xnest. I seem to recall Erik
mentioning the option, but in my few efforts, it landed up with the
newly-created windows on the desktop instead of within the rio xnest.
Is it worth my while to delve into p9p's innards and see if I can find
all the locations where this needs to be corrected? Is it going to be
one locations or far too many?
I simply can't sacrifice my browser and skype to rio, my job depends
on those two.
I'm trying hard to wean myself off Thunderbird, I detest that animal
and have made some progress with Erik's upas which doesn't get totally
confused with Dovecot on the IMAP side - very minor tweaks sufficed to
compile under 9legacy (I just copied the le/be module(s) from the
library into the "distribution").
I still need to be able to operate mailman's web interface: replacing
that will with an acme/mail utility is a bit beyond me and in any case
I think mailman's days are numbered, more so now that version 3 is
starting to take shape and is going to obsolete version 2 that by
comparison is a shrew against an elephant.
Lucio.
On 4/15/19, sl@9front.org <sl@9front.org> wrote:
> thinking is hard. there is a sweet spot somewhere between ease of use
> and knowing what you're trying to accomplish in the first place.
>
> once you learn the system, you can get a lot of mileage out of
> in-built system features, such as shell commands, lists (variables),
> functions, and pipelines. file interfaces and private namespaces make
> these simple primitives even more powerful than they are on presumably
> more familiar unix systems. (it has to be said: unix users already
> don't seem to get much mileage out of existing unix features.)
>
> rio is scriptable, and all of its features are exposed to file
> interfaces and text commands. that's a huge steering wheel, even if
> your hands are small.
>
> all the cosmetic stuff new users typically complain about can be
> modified with a minimum of knowledge and skill. this is a benefit of
> the terse, simple programming style. sometimes, even a deficient
> program can be better than a featureful one, if the deficient program
> is simple and easy to modify. just implement whatever it is you
> actually want to do.
>
> some people would say this is ugly:
>
> http://plan9.stanleylieber.com/rio/img/20190415.png
>
> sl
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-04-16 3:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-04-15 21:51 sl
2019-04-16 3:54 ` Lucio De Re [this message]
2019-04-16 10:21 ` Ethan Gardener
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2019-04-15 20:59 Marshall Conover
2019-04-15 21:10 ` Ori Bernstein
2019-04-16 12:54 ` Marshall Conover
2019-04-17 3:57 ` Lucio De Re
2019-04-17 4:02 ` Michael Misch
2019-04-17 4:25 ` Lucio De Re
2019-04-16 8:17 ` Mart Zirnask
2019-04-15 15:47 ori
2019-04-02 4:41 [9fans] Git/fs: Possibly Usable ori
2019-04-03 18:29 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2019-04-03 20:23 ` Ori Bernstein
2019-04-04 1:22 ` Ori Bernstein
2019-04-14 9:58 ` [9fans] UI design | enhancements Darren Wise
2019-04-14 11:30 ` Ethan Gardener
2019-04-14 14:19 ` hiro
2019-04-15 5:07 ` Lucio De Re
2019-04-15 6:12 ` Bakul Shah
2019-04-15 6:25 ` Devine Lu Linvega
2019-04-15 6:41 ` Michael Misch
2019-04-15 7:24 ` Bakul Shah
2019-04-15 11:20 ` hiro
2019-04-15 14:27 ` Kurt H Maier
2019-04-15 19:59 ` Ethan Gardener
2019-04-15 20:04 ` Michael Misch
2019-04-15 15:10 ` Chris McGee
2019-04-15 15:44 ` Darren Wise
2019-04-15 18:11 ` ab
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