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

[Stephan W. <ste...@ep...>]

> > 1°) Which is your primary OS ? secondary ? ...

Debian Linux, Windows XP

> > 2°) Which calculator do you own ?

TI-89
 
> > 3°) Which link cable do you have ?

Home-made serial (which doesn't work with my usb->serial adapter!!!)

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

No desktop, just Fluxbox as a windowmanager

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

No
 
> > 6°) 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.

Testing, and maybe support/help.

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

Quoting Tijl Coosemans <ti...@ul...>:

> 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.

Why not implement a native Linux filesystem?

I'm dreaming of these shell commands :-)

 mount -t calcfs /dev/tiusb0 /mnt/ti89
 ls /mnt/ti89
   MY_PROGS/
   MAIN/
   PHOENIX/

> 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.

I agree that wxwindows would be a good choice.

Regards,
Stephan