Re: [9fans] Plan 9 applying to GSoC

2022-02-19 Thread ori
Quoth Bakul Shah : > On Feb 19, 2022, at 3:02 AM, sirjofri wrote: > > (4) A filesystem that filters a namespace, but the file contents and not > > the namespace. > > > > The idea is to have a filesystem like exportfs, however, it doesn't just > > represent the files as is, but applies

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 applying to GSoC

2022-02-19 Thread Bakul Shah
On Feb 19, 2022, at 3:02 AM, sirjofri wrote: > (4) A filesystem that filters a namespace, but the file contents and not the > namespace. > > The idea is to have a filesystem like exportfs, however, it doesn't just > represent the files as is, but applies user-defined filters to the >

Re: [9fans] Omero/UI filesystem (was: Plan 9 applying to GSoC)

2022-02-19 Thread sirjofri
Hello you two, yes, others in the community also pointed me towards Omero and I skimmed through the man page about it. I don't know much about Plan B/Octopus, but it seems the general idea is very similar to what I have in mind. However (you can correct me if I'm wrong), it seems that it is

Re: [9fans] Re: Plan 9 applying to GSoC

2022-02-19 Thread Marshall Conover
Adding a +1 for sirjofri's idea 3, which seems like it would be achievable, has clear objectives, and a compelling result. For idea 4, a notable utility is pipefile - https://9p.io/magic/man2html/1/pipefile. It allows you to stitch a command in-between the reading and/or writing of a file. It'd

[9fans] Re: Plan 9 applying to GSoC

2022-02-19 Thread cigar562hfsp952fans
sirjofri writes: > (3) A high-level filesystem interface for UI widgets. Many modern UI > layouts can be described as a hierarchy of containers. The UI > filesystem would start as an empty window, which is reflected by an > empty filesystem. The user could create widget containers (hbox, vbox) >

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 applying to GSoC

2022-02-19 Thread sirjofri
Good morning, I skimmed through the ideas page as well as the mails in this thread and I wanted to share my thoughts and ideas. (1) I am working on a port of 9front to the pinephone smartphone. Although it is still a long way to go I believe the project can be very interesting for UI ideas

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 applying to GSoC

2022-02-19 Thread Lucio De Re
On 2/18/22, Anthony Sorace wrote: > Plan 9 is applying to GSoC again! > > [ ... ] I've done a bit of work on P9P's fontsrv as well as a version - somewhat mysteriously different - "ported" to Plan 9. If we can debate the pros and cons of effectively replacing the static availability of fonts in