On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 3:49 AM, <c...@gli.cas.cz> wrote: > How about turning acme to universal UI, in the style of old Oberon?
Acme very deeply believes that everything's just text. It would be substantial effort to get it to be any more universal than that. I'm aware of at least two independent efforts by very smart people who stalled at about the same place. >From a UI design perspective, it's not clear what it ought to look like. More strongly, I'm not really convinced there *is* a good way for a UI like that to work. You'd have all the problems the X11 tiled window managers have, and if you don't separately provide for either "floating" windows (as some of them do) or horribly throw tiles around, things like viewing large postscript documents is going to be hella disruptive. I love acme, but I think rio's the right starting place for GUI things. Maybe just move the menu into a pre-populated tag, similar to Acme's.
