Re: Project BSDVISION Wants To Develop Native *BSD Console Desktop

"Kamal R. Prasad" <[email protected]> Sun, 21 Aug 2005 23:58:54 -0700 (PDT)
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.libh,gmane.os.freebsd.devel.hackers
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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> And here I thought you were talking about a desktop
> for us vt220 fans.
> There is already screen or emacs on that front.=20

A GUI has more than what emacs provides.

> What about twin
> for example?
>=20
close to what they are doing.

> What exactly is meant by a "console" desktop anyway
> other than
> something similar to early Windows that runs w/o
> X11?
>=20
It presumes the resources are present on the same
machine rather than across the network as envisaged by
the athena project.

> Can you also make a Unicode console for *BSD please?
> ;)
If they get to developing their own fonts -they might.

regards
-kamal


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