On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, Mayuresh Kathe wrote:
- Web surfing (not too heavy, mostly googling around)
Scamper is the web browser in Squeak currently. It is very bare-bones. Even a small, textmode browser like Links does quite a bit more. Unforuntately, a lot of sites now a days are very feature heavy- JS, Java, funky tables and the like. Luckily, the kinds of things I read on-line look OK in browsers like Scamper and Dillo, but I imagine I'm a minority and that respect.
One promising lead is Jon Hyland's MediaView- http://www.huv.com/smalltalk/browser.html
As time goes by, this lead seems less promising, however. He's not had the time to tidy and fileOut the code thus far, and my attempts to contact him to see if some other arragement could be reached (a third-party doing the code clean-up, or distributing the old image sans clean-up), but I've not recieved any responses.
- EMails (lots of them, filtering, PGP would be great ;) [handling around 300 mails a day]
It seems a fair amount of people use Celeste and like it. No PGP now, but that could be added.
- Telnet (thats one of the most important things in my life :) [is there SSH available too??] <grin>
There is TelnetMachine, a very primitive telnet client. Can't handle much in the way of terminal emulation though, I am guessing running something like emacs would be out of the question.
On the Squeak IRC channel (#squeak on irc.openprojects.net), someone was talking about a VT100 emulator on which they were working. I can't recall his nick, but if you're reading this, please pipe up. :) IIRC, it had features enough to run emacs over a telnet connection and display it decently. A SSH backend could be added to it, I imagine, although that hasn't been done yet, AFAIK.
- Document preparation (usually LaTeX, would like some way to view .ps files)
See the "Document Crafting, Objectively" thread in the archive. Lots of jibberjabbering about this. No real tools yet, although I'd love something LaTeX-ish for creating docs for print in Squeak.
- Journal keeping (pure text, almost 8 years of data, need some encryption technique, certainly wouldn't want my to-be wife to read _some_ of those entries ;)
It would be pretty easy to create a journal browser that stored journal entries in a hierarchical manner. Doesn't exist yet.
- A bit of music (mostly MP3)
There's an MP3 player in Squeak.
- A bit of drawing (mostly rough concept drawings done while on the move)
There are some painting tools in Squeak, but to my knowledge, nothing for vector drawing yet.
- PIM (Schedules, AddressBook)
There's a class PDA. As a part of my Dynapad PDA Environment, I plan on creating a nicer set of PIM tools. Eventually at http://spe.sf.net.
Regards, Aaron
Aaron Reichow :: UMD ACM Pres :: http://www.d.umn.edu/~reic0024/ "life, probably the biggest word i've ever said, that says a lot, because there's a whole lot of words inside my head.." :: atmosphere