Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2005 02:59:42 -0400 From: "Mike Adewole" <mike@voicenette.com> To: <hselasky@c2i.net>, <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Project BSDVISION Wants To Develop Native *BSD Console Desktop Message-ID: <007401c5a61d$e8a75530$6501a8c0@newton> References: <BAYC1-PASMTP043A310B1C0CD9C681EE7DC0B40@cez.ice><200508201638.43821.hselasky@c2i.net><BAYC1-PASMTP03347ACE142840DCA6A6FDC0B40@cez.ice> <200508210238.32067.hselasky@c2i.net>
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From: "Hans Petter Selasky" To: <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2005 8:38 PM Subject: Re: Project BSDVISION Wants To Develop Native *BSD Console Desktop > On Saturday 20 August 2005 17:29, Mike Adewole wrote: > > > I am just wondering, but will you be using QT 4.0 for this project? > > > > > > I might be interrested, though I am very comfortable with blackbox, it > > > > might > > > > > be nice with some icons, as long as it doesn't take forever to start. > > > > > > --HPS > > > > We'll be reimplementing TurboVision (C++) for the project so we can release > > under a BSD compatible license. It's almost done and it looks quite nice > > with overlapping windows and drag n drop. > > Maybe I misunderstood you, but will this be running under X or in some text > terminal? > > --HPS > It will be running on a virtual console in text or graphics mode like TurboVision used to, but we are focusing on text mode for now. As I just wrote to someone else, the main idea is to enable BSD programs to have a nice console (textual and graphical) interface with and without any windows system. So I could have a standalone program that looks like an X program for example but runs on a virtual console without X. Or I could have the program run in a desktop environment with other programs without changing a single line of code or recompiling the program. Cheers
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