iLiad Alternative OS for iliad

[axel77]

Originally Posted by dottedmag

To sum it up: OI is a distro project.

OK.

Thats where I was wrong, I thought you were writing a new user interface too intertwined into the distro project..

[delphidb96]

Originally Posted by axel77

OpenInkPot is IMHO a project born to fail. Reason is, its goals are far too general for a good project to be strived for one team. This project seeks to be:
* A kernel project
* A user interface project
* + targets *all* readers.

Pick out at most two of these 3 to make one senseful project, but all 3 is IMHO just too much.

Gee... So the fact that there's a *working* OS (kernel) and an initial implementation of a GUI as well as the beginnings of not just a reader but a bookshelf... I guess they really don't exist, yes? Way to totally ignore observable reality.

Derek

[delphidb96]

Originally Posted by axel77

OK.

Thats where I was wrong, I thought you were writing a new user interface too intertwined into the distro project..

Ummm... EFL is going to be the UI. It's a graphical UI (GUI) and they've already got a bare-bones version up and running on the V3. Of course, OI being a Linux distro, if someone really, really *WANTS* to port another GUI to it, that's okay. In fact, I believe it should be encouraged. Why? Because as e-ink EPD displays become more common and have more features added, I'm quite sure that we'll be seeing other devices being created. Who's to say that by 2010 we won't be seeing EPD cell-phone watches with full-color EPD displays capable of 50FPS video? No doubt the EFL gui is not going to be quite as suitable for such a device.

Derek

[dottedmag]

Originally Posted by delphidb96

Who's to say that by 2010 we won't be seeing EPD cell-phone watches with full-color EPD displays capable of 50FPS video? No doubt the EFL gui is not going to be quite as suitable for such a device.

It is. Just have a look at E17.