Plan 9
So, I’m sitting in the main lecture room, watching Keith Packard, Jim Gettys and Rob Pike chatting about old school UNIX stuff. Plan 9 on the main screen, awaiting Rob Pike’s talk about “plumbing”. No idea what this is going to be about.
Okay, so it turned out to be a talk about an idea for contextual information passing without heavy user interaction. Kind of like post-processed, contextual URLs. Rob demonstrated clicking on filenames to open viewers, man page references to open man pages (good demo of the hyperlinkness of the system), and at the far end of sanity, turning UPS references into links to web information about your package (imagine clicking on text in your mail client or web browser and having the information pop up for you). Interesting stuff for consideration in GNOME.
File Selector
Largely unproductive workshop on this terminally controversial topic. D’oh.
