MOL future plans

[Anne et Bertrand]

Le 2002.04.05 22:01, samuel@ibrium.se a écrit :
> >Better yet, any comments on the future of MOL?
> 
> Well, I have lots of ideas but not quite as much time as
> I would like. Some things I have been working on lately:
> 

> At the moment, I'll probably concentrate upon the following
> issues:
> 
> - Boot disk selection
> - Support of removable media (this is simple, but I just haven't
> got around to do it).
> - Finishing the Darwin port.
> - A GUI to /etc/molrc. I'll probably use KDE for this but
> I haven't completely decided yet.
Well, here's the war : KDE is slow at startup on slow computers. If KDE is 
not the desktop, a kde app has to start all the machinery (DCOP, all the 
parts used in the application and so on...) So it's very annoying for 
small apps that should start instantly.

To compare tow small apps (kdesu and xsu, the gtk based equivalent) on my 
180 mhz 603 ppc :
kdesu : 47'' startup time (kde-2.2, Mandrake 8.0)
xsu : 2'' startup time.

> 
> A few other things I plan to address eventually:
> 
> - Improved X driver (I have to look into the API, but possibly
> one can utilize hardware overlays
> to speed up things).
> 
> - Support for booting OS X inside MOL.
> 
> - True USB support.
> 
> 
> I'm open for suggestions though. What is the most
> pressing issue?
> 

Other people talked about 603 support : I can't use mol since I switched 
to kernel 2.4.
Maybe I could do some testing and tracing ?

Last suggestion : serial support. I don't understand anything in 
ethertap/tunetap + ipchains.
So when I want to exchange some files between mol and linux, i copy them 
on a partition in mol, eject the partition, mount it in linux, copy the 
files, unmount the partition in linux and then remount the partition in 
mol using the apple disk tool in mol...
And I can't print with my serial printer...

Bertrand Dekoninck.