Quoth adventures in9 <[email protected]>: > I'm on the fence about this. > I love rio as a space to develop in. > But I can also see it as lacking in terms of what people expect from a > "desktop". > And working with people trying to port 9front to the Pinephone, there > is a need for alternatives. > > rio is a good demonstration of "the Plan 9 way", but I'm open to > alternatives when need dictates it. >
My experience with running rio on the pinephone with the volume keys mapped to button 2/3 has been that drawing windows is not a big deal and works surprisingly well. Fat fingering the bitsy/keyboard border and accidentally resizing the keyboard is a bigger annoyance. There is other hardware where using the volume buttons to emulate a mouse wouldn't work (ie. the Pinenote doesn't have volume buttons), but I don't know of anyone working on those and there are UX issues deeper in the system than rio (ie. ehitmenu) that are going to make a lot of (most?) native programs unuseable if you don't have a button to hold. (Which I discovered before I mapped my volume keys to mouse buttons.) These were surprising discoveries to me, which reinforces what Ori was saying about how you don't learn the problems you need to solve until you try to use the system for real. - Dave ------------------------------------------ 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Tbe8e5fda6ae62f5c-M164956bf5d891d828fdec621 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription
