Re: [Xastir] While we are on the subject of feature ideas for Xastir

2007-10-05 Thread John Ronan
IPv6 Support, I did a good bit of it previously diffed against an earlier version, I have the tarball still somewhere. I couldn't complete it as there were some changes I'd have had to make to internal structures. De-coupling the Display from the 'processing engine', though I'm not su

Re: [Xastir] While we are on the subject of feature ideas for Xastir

2007-10-05 Thread Chip Griffin
On Oct 4, 2007, at 23:10, Gerry Creager wrote: GUIs are not designed to make anything easier, necessarily, for the user. That's a fiction we foist off on users to make them think programmers are their friends. GUIs are designed to limit most users to be able to do just what the GUI program

Re: [Xastir] While we are on the subject of feature ideas for Xastir

2007-10-05 Thread Gerry Creager
Howdy! Alex Carver wrote: --- Gerry Creager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Pardon me while I don my Nomex. No problem, I've got my plasma torch handy. :) No problem. I have to deal with faculty on a regular basis. Joseph M. Durnal wrote: Some things that I can do with APRSDos, like bring

Re: [Xastir] While we are on the subject of feature ideas for Xastir

2007-10-04 Thread Alex Carver
--- Gerry Creager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Pardon me while I don my Nomex. > No problem, I've got my plasma torch handy. :) > Joseph M. Durnal wrote: > > Some things that I can do with APRSDos, like bring > up a command window > > to the TNC, handle NTS formatted messages > > I can't think

Re: [Xastir] While we are on the subject of feature ideas for Xastir

2007-10-04 Thread Gerry Creager
Pardon me while I don my Nomex. <--- It's been a bad two weeks. More'n likely I should let this pass and go to bed early, but, well, it's been a rough two weeks. The best I can say is, that low in the Gulf of Mexico shows no signs of becoming a hurricane and hitting Texas. Hope y'all can ta

[Xastir] While we are on the subject of feature ideas for Xastir

2007-10-04 Thread Joseph M. Durnal
Some things that I can do with APRSDos, like bring up a command window to the TNC, handle NTS formatted messages (http://www.ew.usna.edu/~bruninga/APRS-docs/NTS.TXT), and not that I can do this in APRSDos, but the ability to be able to create objects freehand instead of being limited to what the in