I am a little late on the reply to this Steve, but most of the ideas from
the list below were observations turned suggestions of mine compiled from
around 2003 when I was studying Plan 9.

There would have been less code in the contrib at that stage... for one...
fgb seems to have most of his work around the 2006-2008 time

/Conor
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   -  A device driver for Plan 9 for an unsupported device
   -   A GUI builder for the Plan 9 control graphics library
   - Porting of the Tcl tool-kit Tk and the Tk GUI builder Xf
   - VRML support for the Httpd
   - Writing of an editor similar to Vi for Plan 9
   - An Html front end to the PQ database system. This would involve adding
   PQ support to the Httpd
   - Java support for Plan 9
   -  A lockable screen saver for Plan 9
   - Mpeg support for Plan 9
   - Addition of load balancing support into Plan 9



On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 12:16 PM, Steve Simon <steve@quintile.net> wrote:

> FWIW
>
> vi does run on plan9 - fgb did a curses port and
> vim runs under that, various people turn in their graves
> if you try to use it however.
>
> there is also a lockable screensaver called screenlock(1)
>
> what kind of MPEG support do you want? Audio support is not bad,
> I have a port of an aac audio decoder and there is mp3 encoders
> and decoders.
>
> Mpeg2 video should not be too hard, Mpeg4, H264, etc are nastier
> but where do you stop. there is a new encoding standard per month
> these days.
>
> -Steve
>
>