Re: [9fans] GSOC: Drawterm for the iPhone

["André Günther" <Andre.G@gmx.de>]

Hi,

here's the guy again that made the original post:
It seems the idea is almost dismissed and I am sorry for wasting your  
time once again, but I'd like to reply to some arguments:

1) Close the iPhone App and your drawterm session is gone

A part of the project could be to write a server that holds the real  
drawterm connection and simulates a drawterm up to the point that  
another drawterm could connect to it and continue the session. Much  
like a irc bouncer.

2) Using drawterm on such a screen is a big pain in the ass

For clicking: Just think of a horizontal iPhone. With one hand you  
point. With the other hand you lay on buttons in a side bar that can  
modify your clicks. ([1] for a simple mockup (examplary: left hand for  
pointing, right thumb for modifying)

Managing rio windows might be possible by giving some extra brainpower  
to the drawterm, like resizing/moving windows with gestures and also  
creating new or deleting windows with gestures.

I imagine both clicking and managing rio become very fluent after you  
get used to it.

__This also might  be a test how the mouse philosophy of plan9  
transfers to touch devices. which is an interesting aspect for the  
project also for the future__

3) Extra applications...

I just give here a small list of devices one could export on an  
iPhone, just to give you an idea:
	- Screen
	- Multitouch
	- Audio (In and Out)
	- Camera
	- Global positioning data
	- the ssd disk on the iPhone
	- 3dimensional rotation of the phone

I am sure just about everyone can pick up some of these to think of an  
application he would find useful for everyday work.


Best wishes,
André
[1] http://www.minithink.org/mock.jpg
(Sorry for the image quality)