on Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 05:22:47PM -0700, Cliff L. Biffle wrote:
>
> *nod* Many X apps are good at adapting to screen size, but that wasn't the
> point I'd hoped to make. An example:
> On my desktop, I use vi.
> On my iPaq, I don't. Why? vi is a very efficient keyboard-driven editor.
> The iPaq has no keyboard.
>
On _everything_ I try to avoid vi ;-)
But seriously, Im afraid this is a terrible example - vi isn't even a
GUI app ! As far as its concerned it doesn't even know its running in
a windowing environment !
The argument isn't about retrofitting apps written before PDA's even
existed. Its about creating application designed _for_ handheld
computers , that can also adapt there interfaces to other more
feature rich platforms.
Id rather you used a console app like mutt, as with a cleverly suited
alternate .muttrc, you can re-layout its interface and make it very
usable ipaq. Exactly the point Im trying to make.
-- Matthew
Received on Thu Jan 16 01:45:51 2003
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