[TiLP-devel] Re: Some news about TiLP & survey/poll

[Tijl C. <ti...@ul...>]

On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 17:00:54 +0100 (CET), Romain LIEVIN wrote:

> 1=B0) Which is your primary OS ? secondary ? ...

FreeBSD 4.9, Win98SE, (Win2k)

> 2=B0) Which calculator do you own ?

TI83+, TI83+SE, TI89

> 3=B0) Which link cable do you have ?

Grey serial, Black serial, USB.

> 4=B0) Which is your desktop (Gnome, KDE, ...) ?

XFCE, KDE

> 5=B0) Will you be interested in a better integration with the desktop ?

Sure.

> 6=B0) Will you be interested in TiLP development, support, help,
> testing, ... ? If yes, please tell me which field. Please not that you
> must have a good availability.

I'll maintain the FreeBSD port, and do some development once in a while.
I can't assure good availability though.

> At last, I would like to know some of your prefs, what you would like
> to do or see... All suggestions are welcome !

One of the downsides of making a vfs is that your code isn't portable
anymore. GNOME has it's own way, KDE, Windows, MacOS,... Of course most
of the functionality of TiLP is in its libraries, but it's still going
to be a lot of work if you want to support all these platforms. It sure
won't hurt to start with a gnomevfs and see how it works out though.

Maybe it would also be interesting to know how the 84+ and 89ti will be
implemented in the os as they themself seem to be the usb device and
not the cable.

Personally I'd also like to keep the windows support. TiLP is about the
only more or less complete link program. I do understand that windows
support (and other platforms too in fact) is quite a headache at the
moment with all those ifdefs. Maybe we could split up some files,
reorganize them... Maybe it would also be interesting to use wxWindows
instead of gtk+, so TiLP has the look and feel of the OS it is running
on. That would be something for a next major release though.