Project BSDVISION Wants To Develop Native *BSD Console Desktop
Kamal R. Prasad
kamalpr at yahoo.com
Mon Aug 22 06:58:58 GMT 2005
>
> And here I thought you were talking about a desktop
> for us vt220 fans.
> There is already screen or emacs on that front.
A GUI has more than what emacs provides.
> What about twin
> for example?
>
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?
>
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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kamalp at acm.org
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