Hi,
here's the guy again that made the original post:
It seems the idea is almost dismissed and I am sorry for wasting your
time once again, but I'd like to reply to some arguments:
1) Close the iPhone App and your drawterm session is gone
A part of the project could be to write a server that holds the real
drawterm connection and simulates a drawterm up to the point that
another drawterm could connect to it and continue the session. Much
like a irc bouncer.
2) Using drawterm on such a screen is a big pain in the ass
For clicking: Just think of a horizontal iPhone. With one hand you
point. With the other hand you lay on buttons in a side bar that can
modify your clicks. ([1] for a simple mockup (examplary: left hand for
pointing, right thumb for modifying)
Managing rio windows might be possible by giving some extra brainpower
to the drawterm, like resizing/moving windows with gestures and also
creating new or deleting windows with gestures.
I imagine both clicking and managing rio become very fluent after you
get used to it.
__This also might be a test how the mouse philosophy of plan9
transfers to touch devices. which is an interesting aspect for the
project also for the future__
3) Extra applications...
I just give here a small list of devices one could export on an
iPhone, just to give you an idea:
- Screen
- Multitouch
- Audio (In and Out)
- Camera
- Global positioning data
- the ssd disk on the iPhone
- 3dimensional rotation of the phone
I am sure just about everyone can pick up some of these to think of an
application he would find useful for everyday work.
Best wishes,
André
[1] http://www.minithink.org/mock.jpg
(Sorry for the image quality)
