Re: [SharpOS Developers] about sharpws / keymap (2nd attempt)

[Sander v. R. <san...@gm...>]

Well this time i -did- receive my own email this time.. don't know why
i didn't get it the last time..
The 2nd attempt also shows up in the archives properly this time..
sourceforge glitch?

On 8/29/07, Pieter Mees <pie...@in...> wrote:
> It's normal that you don't receive your own mails from the mailing list.
> I believe you can configure this in your subscription on SF. I received
> that mail on Tuesday.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: sha...@li...
> [mailto:sha...@li...] On Behalf Of
> Sander van Rossen
> Sent: woensdag 29 augustus 2007 9:55
> To: sha...@li...
> Subject: [SharpOS Developers] about sharpws / keymap (2nd attempt)
>
> Odd... i send this email to the mailing list a couple of days ago..
> but it never returned to me (is that normal behaviour?)
> On the other hand i can see the title of the mail on the sourceforge
> mailing list page, but the mail itself doesn't show up when i click it
> and browse trough all the emails... weird huh?
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Sander van Rossen <san...@gm...>
> Date: Aug 28, 2007 4:09 PM
> Subject: sharpws / keymap etc.
> To: Sha...@li...
>
>
> I've been working at a client the last month and things have been way
> too busy for me to contribute to sharpos.. (or give enough attention
> to my family)
> but from next week on (i hope) i'll have more time to spend on sharpos
> once again.
> (and my family ;))
>
>
>
> I noticed the complete overhaul in the repository.. wow, lots of changes
> looks good :)
> too bad it doesn't run too well tough :-/
> but i guess that will be fixed soon..
>
>
>
> I spend a little time on sharpws, cleaned things a bit up so that it
> actually compiles ;)
> still doesn't run tough.
> I was thinking tough.. right now sharpws has a library called sharpws
> and an executable called sharpws-server..
> now it's not entirely clear, but it looks like the library has some
> client and common code..
> maybe it's better to have 3 parts instead of 2;
> the client, the server and the host.
>
> The host is basically the actuall machine, the hardware if you will..
> here are all the things that the client / server have in common and
> where they get all their resources from.
> The client and server parts only handle the protocol part of it all
> basically.
>
> This way it should also be simpler to have multiple servers and
> multiple clients, which could be usefull at some point.
>
> I'm also really concerned about font rendering, i did a bit of
> research into it a while ago and to say it's complicated is an
> understatement.. it's a whole research field on it's own!
> I think it's best to use bitmapped fonts for a while, and maybe
> eventually try to port (eek!) something like freetype to get proper
> font rendering working..
>
>
>
> Also, i looked at the keymapping part and i realized that besides
> numlock mode is basically more or less the same (from a keymapping
> pov) as capslock mode.
> Also, the meanings of some keys are also different when you press
> ctrl, like pause/break etc.
>
> Which just makes me feel that key maps might need to be more flexible
> and handle as much 'modes' as they need.
> I haven't put much tought in it tough, just made the observation.
>
>
>
> I'm sure you all the papers on singularity, they have some interesting
> ideas on having driver manifests that define which ports/irq/dma's
> etc. the drivers use..
> Which helps automatically check at install time if drivers would have
> conflicts, and helps port/irq/dma resource management..
> Shouldn't be too hard to implement something simular using stubs and
> attributes..
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