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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 11:38:52 -0400
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Subject: Re: [9fans] GSoC proposal: Alternative window system
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On Wed Mar 19 11:36:39 EDT 2014, a@9srv.net wrote:

> > we don't drive any touch hardware, so in the interest of
> > success, i would not be interested in a gsoc project that
> > required as step 0: identify, purchase and write driver for
> > enabling hardware.
>
> If someone were interested in doing this in the short term,
> the best option is likely tying it to reviving the iOS drawterm
> port. One could also do some interesting UI experiments
> with drawterm from laptops with multitouch devices; that
> would be less ambitious, but you'd get past step 0 quicker.

given that that port was done many releases of ios ago, it
is likly that a different step 0 would be required: bring
the ios drawterm port back to life.

- erik