Text 5697, 75 rader
Skriven 2006-04-15 03:45:28 av Maurice Kinal (1:140/13.1)
   Kommentar till text 5696 av Janis Kracht (1:261/38)
Ärende: Menumaster
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Hey Janis!

Apr 14 23:15 06, Janis Kracht wrote to Maurice Kinal:

 JK> It's a good idea, and I'll mention it to them.  By terminal do you 
 JK> mean console?

Yep.  Non-gui.  Terminal.  Keyboard driven, text output dealie.  Console. 
Whatever.  :-)

Looks to me from the screenshot it is ncurses or terminfo driven.  I like that
idea and have noticed simular in usuage more and more these days in databasing
type apps.  I think it is a good idea.  I find using arrow keys and tab for
naviagting through fields to be more natural then a mouse.  I just use a mouse
for cutting and pasting between consoles with different apps running in each
one, and like alt-fn navigation between consoles to be more rewarding and
productive then the X virtual desktop thingy.  I can do things faster and more
efficient with the virtual consoles (terminals, whatever you want to call
them).

 >>Me too.  Having said that, I now have a xorg-7.0.0 compiled but haven't 
 >>got it running in a bootable enviroment yet.  Just tidying up and 
 >> packaging things before making the leap.  Looks like it should work.

 JK> Hey that's good.  Hope it works out.

It should.  I finished the base earlier today and plan to boot it up tomorrow
but still need to package xorg up first.  According to 'du -h /mnt/target';

    168M    /mnt/target

and that includes c, c++ (from gcc-4.1.0), glibc-2.3.6, some extra basic libs,
networking, etc.  Not too shabby.  I may add gfortran after reading about it
the other day but maybe will leave that for later after getting the new xorg up
and running.  Why?  Because it's there?

 JK> I don't run too many things in X, like I said so I can't really offer 
 JK> many suggestions.. let's see.. besides Firefox, sometimes I use open 
 JK> office if I have to deal with "documentation" writing, that kind of 
 JK> thing.. but I hardly do that right now.. I run centericq so I don't 
 JK> need anything like that over there in X.. boy, guess I'm pretty 
 JK> boring <grin>.

Me too.  We'll see but I figure gimp and maybe a basic word processor.  I don't
use or need either but what the heck.  Might check out a few gui frontends for
audio processing.

 JK> :)  I used wget for while in a script I wrote for on of the fdn guys 
 JK> who needed
 JK> to grab some graphics off a site for his distribution.. worked great 
 JK> :)

For sure.

 JK> Mine too :)  No wonder I like you <bg>

:::blush:::  Shucks, I like you too.  ;-)

 >> My first one had a whopping 20 megger!!!  :-)

 JK> Oh piggy!  we couldn't afford one like that haha.. well, actually, 
 JK> this was so early I wonder if they HAD 20 meg drives yet :) :)

Actually there was 1G external scsii drives back then but they cost a fortune.

 JK> He made the install really nice compared to some of the other 
 JK> distributions at the time, I sure remember that :)

Still is the best methinks.  Simple and fast.

Life is good,
Maurice

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