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Re: 24 lines terminal


From: Marco Gerards
Subject: Re: 24 lines terminal
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 17:37:02 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux)

ams@kemisten.nu (Alfred M. Szmidt) writes:

>    >    A lot of stuff got fixed in the wiki.
>    >
>    > The wiki isn't the correct place for this kind of suff.
>
>    The best thing to do is to write some official docs.  But I think
>    that should be done after the console is completely finished.
>
> One can still document large parts of the console, like what keys can
> be used in it.  The various modules that exist, what they do. etc.

Sure.  I'm just possible interested in doing this when it is all
done.  But if you want to work on this now, feel free to do so.

>    - No keymap support (well, not in CVS).
>    - No repeater support in CVS.
>
> Care to try and clean them up and get them into the CVS tree?

Sure.  Any comments on the repeater patches are welcome.  So are
testers.

>    - Thomas' proposal should be implemented so messages appear on the
>      Hurd console instead of the Mach console.
>
> Any takers?

Perhaps me in some months...

>    Did I forgot something that is really important (and is present in the
>    mach console)?
>
> Does X work? Does the new console work correctly under GNU Mach 2.x?

X works.

AFAIK it works in GNU Mach 2.x, but I do not use or case too much
about it.  Somehting that bothers me is that the keyboard set 2 is used.

>    >    And AFAIK Jeff want to enable the Hurd console by default,
>    >    which is even better.
>    >
>    > Goodie, any ETA on this?
>
>    Jeff want to build a new packages after he uploaded the glibc
>    package.
>
> Sorry, that doesn't answer the question.  When will this be done?
> Today? A week? A month? A year? A century?

Some weeks I guess.  It depends on Jeff, but I assume it will not take
too long.

--
Marco





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