From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 11:02:28 -0800 From: Geoffrey Avila To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] interesting potential targets for plan 9 and/or inferno In-Reply-To: <45EF5CB6.4040902@gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <20070307084327.Y60404@orthanc.ca> <3e1162e60703071628q3c5e16deg22859ed62937505b@mail.gmail.com> <45EF5CB6.4040902@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Topicbox-Message-UUID: 1bebb022-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Wed, 7 Mar 2007, don bailey wrote: > I'm really with Minnich on this one. The GUI is what *everyone* > complains about and it's always the *first* thing they complain > about. I deal with pretty intelligent people in the security > community and they can't handle Rio and don't want to. > Yeah. I've actually heard that firsthand from some of our visualization people. I mean, they would also want support for hw OpenGL, which we can't do (yet), but apparently the Rio aesthetic was lost on them. While I don't think it'd be worth it to port the giant GTK+/GNOME hairball over, I do miss the 3D-look window borders, which (to me) make it easier to distinguish edges for grabbing and moving purposes. If GNOME is too much candyfloss & tinsel, how about a 3dwm-look? -GBA