On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, Tim Rowledge wrote:

> > 2. A soft-keyboard morph
> Thought  saw one of those around?

I've only been able to find one for MVC.  That, and the PianoMorph.

> > 3. Revamp the window manager to produce something more appropriate to a
> > PDA.  I think PicoGUI (http://picogui.org) is a great place to look for
> > ideas.
> hmm, maybe. It doesn't look too terribly good to me. Too windoze.

Have you tried it or just looked at the screenshots?  I'm afraid I don't
follow you on the similarities with WinDOS.  It has frames and title bars,
I suppose.  And widgets!  I'm talking mostly about the window management
scheme- no overlapping windows, tiling.  I've tried it on a PDA, and it
works out quite well.  A way to multitask on a PDA.

> > 4. Write a datastore.
> Don't duplicate work. There are already several projects that people
> have done; Minnestore for example.

>From my little work with MinneStore, it seems like it'll be suffecient.

> So far as possible, just grab the framebuffer or better yet just grab
> memory and set the video h/w to display the bits you want to be the
> display. Throw out as much as possible of the 'OS' - they're all junk.
> Consider building on the SqueakNOS project instead of wasting resources
> on linux - way too much excess baggage.

Still going to be using Linux.  Unlike some of the people on this list, I
have almost no hardware hacking ability.  I write Smalltalk and Lisp code.
I have no desire to duplicate work, and would rather waste a meg or two of
flash than spend 6 months trying to figure out how to get SqueakNOS to
work.  Let alone drafting some way of using foreign C-libs.  So, unless
someone volunteers for this, I'll stick to Linux.  And no, I don't have
any funds to pay you to do this work, Tim. :)

Regards,
Aaron

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