[clug] lightweight tool for creating PDA-style Apps

[James Polley]

ChromeOS?
I think the Crunch Tablet thingy was going to do something similar.

I've never done it, but I've used RatPoison and ion3 for a long time;
they're no-frills window managers that don't add any window decorations and
rely heavily on the keyboard. Extra benefit - instead of having to switch
back to tty for console work, you can have an xterm open beside your browser
and switch between the two easily.

On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 7:14 PM, David Cottrill <cottrill.david at gmail.com>wrote:

> Has anyone seriously investigated the idea of: XWindows w/out window
> manager and running a browser full screen to work as the computer
> interface, combined with moving back to tty terminal for serious jobs.
>
> This gives a GUI, basic windowing with tty1-6 and access to all and
> sundry through the browser.
>
> A well scripted home page or Webmin (or similar)  would give full
> power over the computer with minimal resource usage.
>
> ... or did I dream up an answer someone else came up with ten years ago.
>
> I realise this is heavy weight - but still under a gig installed.
>
> David
>
>
> 2009/8/4 steve jenkin <sjenkin at canb.auug.org.au>:
> > steve jenkin wrote on 29/7/09 11:48 AM:
> >
> >> With the advent of cheap/small netbooks - especially with the Google
> >> announcement & ARM processors - I'm thinking I can recreate what I loved
> >> about the PSION :-)
> >>
> >> -----------------------------------------------
> >> My Question:
> >>  Do you know of any lightweight tools suitable for creating PDA-style
> >> Apps (good UI tools) on low-powered netbooks??
> >> -----------------------------------------------
> >
> >
> > Any used, or seen used, 'Inferno'??
> > Any comments/warnings?
> >
> > Looks 'nice', but why not apparently used a lot?
> > Is there some 'gotcha' in the details, or ????
> >
> > <http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/index.html>
> > <http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/limbo.html>
> > <http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/papers/dis.html>
> >
> > Comes in free/non-free license.
> >
> > Host Operating Systems
> > Windows NT/2000/XP
> > Irix, Linux, MacOS X, FreeBSD, Solaris, Plan 9
> >
> > Supported Architectures
> > Intel x86, XScale, IBM PowerPC, ARM StrongARM, Sun SPARC
> > [and an IE plug-in ;-)]
> >
> > A Complete Solution
> > "Inferno is not only an operating system, it is also a complete
> > development environment, providing all the tools necessary for creating,
> > testing and debugging the applications that run within it."
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