Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2005 19:53:21 -0400 From: "Mike Adewole" <mike@voicenette.com> To: "Allan Fields" <bsd@afields.ca> Cc: freebsd-libh@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Project BSDVISION Wants To Develop Native *BSD Console Desktop Message-ID: <000c01c5a6ab$83d83410$6501a8c0@newton> References: <00d101c5a570$7b322050$6501a8c0@newton> <20050821215540.GC58723@afields.ca>
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From: "Allan Fields" To: "Mike Adewole" Cc: <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>; <freebsd-libh@freebsd.org> Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2005 5:55 PM Subject: Re: Project BSDVISION Wants To Develop Native *BSD Console Desktop > On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 06:18:13AM -0400, Mike Adewole wrote: > > For many people who spend a lot of time on the *BSD console and would love > > to have a desktop environment comparable to KDE/GNOME, I'm starting a > > project called BSDVISION to develop such an environment. Please don't ask if > > such an environment is really needed or not; the important thing is that > > some people like me need it badly enough to want to develop it. > > And here I thought you were talking about a desktop for us vt220 fans. > There is already screen or emacs on that front. What about twin > for example? > > What exactly is meant by a "console" desktop anyway other than > something similar to early Windows that runs w/o X11? > > Can you also make a Unicode console for *BSD please? ;) > -- > Allan Fields > It's also for vt220 fans, actually, and quite similar to twin. "Console" desktop means a desktop for vt220 fans that can run on text terminals but also run on graphics hardware if available. Oh, and you'll be *pleased* to know the project supports unicode so we don't need a separate project for that :-) Cheers, Mike
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