Re: [9front] [PATCH] programmable menus for rio

[Stanley Lieber <sl@stanleylieber.com>]

just call it brio.

sl



> On Aug 24, 2022, at 4:05 PM, ori@eigenstate.org wrote:
> 
> Quoth Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM) <lyndon@orthanc.ca>:
>> Given that rio has had a couple of decades to bake, the
>> world has changed around it, and thinking of new stuff
>> is always a good idea. 
> 
> My point goes beyond that -- rio can be thought of as an
> implementation of a more general file system interface
> that can be implemented by other windowing systems.
> 
> The parsimony and focus in that interface makes it easier
> to swap rio for a window system that behaves differently
> but provides the same mouse and keyboard multiplexing
> to the programs running under it.
> 
> Rio can -- and I think, should -- change. The interface,
> though, needs to be considered with care if we want to
> maintain its general nature.
> 
> Arguably, rio *also* wasn't a sufficiently good steward
> of this to date.
> 
>