On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 3:26 PM, John Floren <j...@jfloren.net> wrote: > On Mar 4, 6:03 am, Jacob Todd <jaketodd...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I hope so. There are some ideas listed on my site[1]. >> >> [1]http://bender.eugenics-research.org/doc/plan_9/GSoC/ > > I really like these ideas from your site: > * Wifi drivers. I think WPA/WPA2 is the most important part; setting > it up in Linux is a pain in the ass >, we need a nice way to list > networks, choose one, set a key, connect, etc. I think a wififs could > handle this... cat /n/wifi/scan, echo 'key' > /n/wifi/key, etc. I > think this one will be tough but not impossible
> * Update perl/python: Good idea. Can this be "do the port properly so > it can go into the mainline distributions"? what do you mean by "do the port properly so it can go into the mainline distributions?" updating the python port is done in less than a day, perl the same thing, it even comes with the mkfiles, you might have to tweak them a bit, but just that > Some of mine: > * Mercurial. This goes hand in hand with the python one; we need a > modern upgradable Mercurial distribution, and it would be nice to > figure out why it's so slow on Plan 9. modern, the one we have was the lastest at the time I did the port and the port took 10 minutes > * HTTPS for Abaco. abaco does support HTTPS > * CSS for Abaco it might be better porting netsurf, it even has a framebuffer implementation so the UI restricts to just feeding the events and using loadimage() > (OR) > * copy-paste to/from X11. It comes up all the time, a decent web > browser is important. HTTPS and CSS would go a long way toward making > Abaco nicer to use, or simply adding the capability to copy/paste to/ > from a Linux browser running in Equis would help. > * Fix graphics. Why does it take 2 seconds to bring a large window to > the front over another large window? May be pretty difficult? > -- Federico G. Benavento -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Plan 9 Google Summer of Code" group. To post to this group, send email to plan9-gsoc@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to plan9-gsoc+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/plan9-gsoc?hl=en.
