On 2007-02-26, Samer Abdallah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Speaking of ideas for Ion4, if such a thing should ever come to pass,
> has anyone come across/have opinions about acme (from plan9)?

Sucks on the tabletop computer, being heavily pointing-device oriented
in an application requiring textual input. Whereas combined use of the
mouse and the keyboard can work great in applications like Blender and 
FPS games, it simply won't work in applications where you type a lot.
Not with the standard two-handed keyboards, and I've yet to see a better
text input method.

Such a "type/store commands somewhere" interface could, however, work 
nicely on a pocket book sized touch screen tablet (a real lightweight 
one, not a bloated pseudo-tablet of the hinged laptops) with hand-writing 
recognition, where the keyboard would necessarily be too crappy to have 
at all.

-- 
Tuomo

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