From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Andr=E9_G=FCnther?= To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> In-Reply-To: <8126F5C4-87DF-4EB8-9470-FACCB5B1BEAF@gmx.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v930.3) Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 08:32:35 +0100 References: <8126F5C4-87DF-4EB8-9470-FACCB5B1BEAF@gmx.de> Subject: Re: [9fans] GSOC: Drawterm for the iPhone Topicbox-Message-UUID: c77f2f34-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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 =20= 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 =20 drawterm connection and simulates a drawterm up to the point that =20 another drawterm could connect to it and continue the session. Much =20 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 =20 point. With the other hand you lay on buttons in a side bar that can =20 modify your clicks. ([1] for a simple mockup (examplary: left hand for =20= pointing, right thumb for modifying) Managing rio windows might be possible by giving some extra brainpower =20= to the drawterm, like resizing/moving windows with gestures and also =20 creating new or deleting windows with gestures. I imagine both clicking and managing rio become very fluent after you =20= get used to it. __This also might be a test how the mouse philosophy of plan9 =20 transfers to touch devices. which is an interesting aspect for the =20 project also for the future__ 3) Extra applications... I just give here a small list of devices one could export on an =20 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 =20= application he would find useful for everyday work. Best wishes, Andr=E9 [1] http://www.minithink.org/mock.jpg (Sorry for the image quality)