Re: [9fans] p9f mention of 9front

2021-06-24 Thread silas poulson
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Re: [9fans] p9f mention of 9front

2021-06-24 Thread Wes Kussmaul
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Re: [9fans] p9f mention of 9front

2021-06-24 Thread unobe
Quoth hiro <23h...@gmail.com>: > > Foundation and 9front can work to figure out how to make it so there's > > one distribution. > > For 9front this doesn't matter so much. We do not have a problem with > there being multiple (sometimes experimental) distributions. For > non-experimental things

Re: [9fans] p9f mention of 9front

2021-06-24 Thread Ethan Gardener
On Thu, Jun 24, 2021, at 11:12 AM, Philip Silva via 9fans wrote: > I wonder if this could be copied from how plan9port behaves on macOS > for instance. Using a single tap and then toggling/chording using alt > and command keys. Maybe on a multi-touch input the distance of the 2nd > and 3rd

Re: [9fans] p9f mention of 9front

2021-06-24 Thread unobe
Quoth Philip Silva via 9fans <9fans@9fans.net>: > I wonder if this could be copied from how plan9port behaves on macOS for > instance. Using a single tap and then toggling/chording using alt and command > keys. Maybe on a multi-touch input the distance of the 2nd and 3rd finger > could help to

AW: [9fans] p9f mention of 9front

2021-06-24 Thread sirjofri
Hello all, Klong mail incoming. I hope my English is ok and I don't tread on other's toes.) from my perspective it looks like this: There are multiple Plan 9 forks kor distributions). They all are philosophically and technically different, but they still share patches (even if many people

Re: [9fans] p9f mention of 9front

2021-06-24 Thread hiro
> Foundation and 9front can work to figure out how to make it so there's > one distribution. For 9front this doesn't matter so much. We do not have a problem with there being multiple (sometimes experimental) distributions. For non-experimental things like 9legacy and miller's rpi releases, we're

Re: [9fans] p9f mention of 9front

2021-06-24 Thread Philip Silva via 9fans
I wonder if this could be copied from how plan9port behaves on macOS for instance. Using a single tap and then toggling/chording using alt and command keys. Maybe on a multi-touch input the distance of the 2nd and 3rd finger could help to identify which modifier/button it translates to.

Re: [9fans] plan9 and touch screens

2021-06-24 Thread Lucio De Re
On 6/24/21, Richard Miller <9f...@hamnavoe.com> wrote: > Inferno can work quite comfortably with a touchscreen and a virtual > "bitsy" keyboard. It's a different user interface from rio, but not > horribly worse. Likely Plan 9 could be adapted to do the same. > And handwriting may have been

[9fans] plan9 and touch screens

2021-06-24 Thread Richard Miller
fde...@fjrhome.net: > Either that or you would need to replace rio with something more > touchscreen-friendly, in the process losing much of what makes the Plan > 9 environment as unique as it is from a user interface perspective. > > Most "modern" phones also lack a suitable keyboard to

Re: [9fans] p9f mention of 9front

2021-06-24 Thread Frank D. Engel, Jr.
I don't think the touchscreen technology has figured out how to distinguish between fingers yet. The rio environment would need to identify if you were using finger 1, 2 or 3 to tap on something so it would know if it was to move or resize the window, which context menu to open, etc...