On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 03:20:27PM -0600, cenob...@dragoncrypt.com wrote: > I know the best way to improve things is to learn about how they > work, so I do plan to do that. I may be the only one, but my motto > recently is "down with Gmenu2x!". Since I come from an artsy > background, the constant offense of those icons to my gorgeous > wallpaper is inexcusable. I am not sure if Gmenu can be hacked to > have no icons, but that would be somewhat pointless. > > Here's to continued improvement...
Although I think Gmenu2x is an appropriate UI for the BNN. I think there is value in exploring other options even if just theroetically. I use ratpoison as my main window manager on most machines I use. It would be well suited to the BNN as one of it's main concepts is doing away with the mouse. I'd love to see it on the BNN but.... It depends on X11 and therefore would not be a trivial port. Something "Cleaner" then the current UI would be nice but I lack the time and Knowlegde to write it. I'm sure others are in a similar boat. I have several projects I want to do on the BNN. But I find that life gets in the way of my ability to code as enthusiastically as I'd like (oh, for those carefee teenage years when I'd spend countless hours coding). If someone knows of a UI that doesn't have X11 depends and is light enough to fit in Ben's 32Mib I'd gladly spend the time to try porting it when I can find the time. I think that perhaps the community of developers for the BNN need more/ better ways to interact with one another. This list and the irc are great but with the geographical diversity of the community it can be difficult to get the kind of energy rolling that the Ben/Ya/?? really deserve. I'd love to see a Ben hackfest. I'd love to hang with people and hack on a MM1 even though I have no forseeable use for it (cool kit is cool kit). I'd love to have an afternoon or 3 of beer chips and BNN hacking with another Qi enthusiast. But.... Time.... Distance.... Timezones..... etc. Does any one have suggestions on how such community building might happen? o.k. I'm Rambling now.. I agree with cenobyte. the wiki need fixing.. was actually one of my many projects (with possilby a fuller Ben manual), But... Time... etc <sigh>. I think UI options would be great. But haven't seen any yet that would be an easy port. Thoughts? Speaking of Time and Timezones.. about a week (possible more where dooes the time go) I pushed up some improvements to my ben-time-set script. It's under the nanobits project section. I'd appreciate feedback on it's current state as I think it is now close to being an alternative to the commandline acrobatics currently listed in the wiki to set the timezone, time and date. If others agree I'd like to amend the wiki to point to it as an option. Thanks of listening to my ramblings.. Freemor
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