Re: [9fans] plan9 and touch screens
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 discarded in the recent past, but it can be brought back if, say, speech recognition won't work. We've moved on and Plan 9 can catch up. If not, then I think obsolescence looms large. But I don't think so, I think it just needs the ability to absorb lessons from the ecosystem. Lucio. -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T93744379e79c6971-M5fa24cba9e3d66a7f8ff253a Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription
[9fans] plan9 and touch screens
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 provide reasonable > interaction with the command line (and it can be difficult to type > efficiently on something that small anyway). 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. -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T93744379e79c6971-M02879a98ecf562634ea3842d Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription
