I don't stop thinking how Leo can become the "brain" of a device, due to its code-data merging possibilities combined with the outlining structure. For this, I always thought as having to adapt Leo to the OS of each device once the working structure of such "brain" is developed. But never thought of Leo being the OS itself. If that were to happen, I would certanly migrate to Kivy as a gui, since it supports also mobile devices natively (Not only android and IOS but Raspberry Pi), can perceive (and use) their sensors, tactile screens, etc.
To me, the only crazy part of the idea is the amount of work it could imply =P On Sunday, September 1, 2013 6:17:08 PM UTC+2, Jacob Peck wrote: > > As the subject states, this is most likely an absolutely insane idea > (for a variety of reasons), but it's a neat thought experiment at least. > > I'm imagining a Leo-based operating system. Well, rather, a distro of > some GNU/Linux setup which replaces the init scripts with leo outlines, > containing scripts, run by a small python feeder script using > leoBridge. Filesystem access would be with EKR's FUSE/LeoFS work from > the wiki. The only GUI would be a minimal WM (perhaps OpexBox? IceWM? > I'm imagining it could be the lightest-weight thing possible) which > immediately opens an un-closable Leo instance. > > To make this a decent experience, it would need a few things from Leo: > > 1) Way to embed an interactive shell in Leo (half working on one myself) > 2) Way to embed a minimal web browser in Leo (seems simple enough, > honestly, as Terry's richtext.py shows - things like bookmarks and > history would be naturally expressed as trees) > 3) A plugin to handle email in a Leonine fashion (I have some ideas for > this brewing in my head as well) > 4) A package manager, somehow integrated into Leo (@buttons could do the > trick - no need to change core for that, really) > > Basically it would be a boot-to-Leo system. A bit pointless in the long > run as full OS users can already do everything they want, and more, but > I can totally imagine this having a place on the newfangled ultrabooks > and such that companies are pushing out. I know I'd use it on my > laptop, because honestly I do all my work in Leo as is... > > Thoughts? > -->Jake > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to leo-editor+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to leo-editor@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
