On Fri, 09 Mar 2007 14:55:56 -0700, S Mattison wrote: > Of all the applications on my system that it would be awesome to > include, if you were including applications that could render > themselves in 3d, I would say;
You forget on your list that VOS is cross-platform, and the primary platform is GNU/Linux. With that in mind: > Comms: > Miranda IM - Opensource, Small, and includes AIM, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, > Jabber/Gtalk, IRC, plugins support SMTP Email. > http://www.miranda-im.org/screenshots Better write our own, using libgaim. Gaim is one of the most powerful IM clients out there, recently, even on Windows, I'm recommending Gaim rather than Miranda. And now they managed to isolate all the actual functionality in a library, so you can write your own UI on top of that -- the very popular AdiumX client for the Mac is now based on libgaim. > Filesharing: > Shareaza - Opensource, supports HTTP, FTP, ed2k, Gnutella, BitTorrent > http://www.shareaza.com Windows-only, no good. > Media: > VLC or Media Player Classic - both Opensource. VLC is "teh kewlness". And it already has deeply entrenched a separation of UI and logic, so it's not too hard to tack a 3d UI on top of it. > Images: > i.Mage editor - Opensource and Small. > http://www.memecode.com/image.php Windows-only, no good. I'd go for The Gimp, but then, I'm not sure I want that just yet -- images are 2d anyway, so how much do I gain by a 3d editor? > Compression: > unxutils or 7zip - both Opensource. On non-windows, usually you have a separate command-line program (or library) for each different compression format. Even rar/unrar and 7zip in their GNU/Linux versions support only rar and 7z (respectively). So what I believe we'd end up doing is a front-end program that is able to delegate file handling to many other "handlers"; it's a known field, there are many such apps specially in the GNU/Linux world (nautilus, squeeze, etc). > Office: > OpenOffice - Opensource but NOT small. I don't have a good feeling about this one. It's way too heavy, has hard dependencies on java, and I doubt it would be easy to decouple or integrate the UI. best, Lalo Martins -- So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable. ----- personal: http://www.laranja.org/ technical: http://lalo.revisioncontrol.net/ GNU: never give up freedom http://www.gnu.org/ _______________________________________________ vos-d mailing list [email protected] http://www.interreality.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vos-d
