[plug] I had a Thought too! (Grapevine)

[Anthony Jones]

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On Thursday 14 March 2002 00:36, John Knight wrote:
> Has there ever been any attempts to organise some sort of PLUG project, 
> where someone has an idea for a programme and we all pitch in and help if 
we 
> can? There's so many programmers/scripters around that want to do something 
> useful, why not bond together and produce something?

If you're itching to write software in your spare time then you're welcome to 
help on the Grapevine project (http://www.grapevineproject.org). Although I'm 
the only guy in Perth working on it (the others are in LA, NY and absolutely 
positively Wellington). I would love for there to be someone else working on 
the project in the same timezone and that I don't have to get on a plane to 
go and see.

> Off the top of my head, I was thinking of a non-grphical menu (that's a bit 
> like the Norton Commander in this case, where there's no graphics but 
> something smart made of text), which allows you to choose which X Desktop 
> you want to enter. This is one of the main advatages of run level 5 (in an 
> .rpm based distro), but scrap that idea if it already exists, either way, I 
> want to choose my desktop in run level 3!

Umm.. can't you just use GDM or KDM and choose which session you want or are 
you suggesting basically a ncurses verion of GDM? Why don't you juse use VNC 
and run all your favourite desktops at once rather than having to choose 
between them?

> I dunno if you like them or not, they're just quick ideas, but I would like 
> to have a group activity going on, where we beginners can get experience 
> from a decently sized project.

There's a "beginners level" side-project of the Grapevine project. It's a 
(perhaps gtk-gnutella like) media client which uses wxWindows (so we can 
easily port it to that other OS that I forget the name of). Of course it's 
not going to be useful until we've got Grapevine up and running.

> anarchist tomato
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