Hi!
--- Mayuresh Kathe mayuresh@vsnl.com wrote:
Hi,
Lets suppose, I want to use Squeak on a regular basis for the following tasks, how could I possibly go around achieving my goals?
- Web surfing (not too heavy, mostly googling around)
Hmmm, Scamper is there but... :-) I usually have Galeon or Mozilla up in parallell. This is one area that Squeak will have a hard time to handle unless the code by Jon Hylands get's cleaned up by someone... Or someone would integrate the Gecko engine as a plugin - someone mentioned that the other day.
- EMails (lots of them, filtering, PGP would be great ;) [handling around 300 mails a day]
Check! No problem. I use "stock" Celeste and it works superb. The new and improved FilterCeleste scales even better as I understand it. PGP is coming right as we speak obviously. Eh... GPG? :-)
We are a bunch of users so new features tend to popup in this area.
- Telnet (thats one of the most important things in my life :)
Check! There is a telnet client. I don't know how good it is, I don't use it but I think it is useable.
[is there SSH available too??] <grin>
No, but we really should write a plugin for SSL/SSH... Perhaps someday. We might need it in a project of ours so...
- Document preparation (usually LaTeX, would like some way to view .ps files)
Oops. Viewing Postscript is one complex job. But sure, perhaps someone could write some fancy plugin for ghostscript!? :-)
Btw, I use Lout instead of LaTeX (same but better IMHO) and a nice Lout preparation environment in Squeak should be easy to produce - I mean, hey, it's just text with tags! :-)
By using OSProcess you could probably quite easy whip up some form of authoring environment that just calls TeX or Lout when it comes to compile some output.
- Journal keeping (pure text, almost 8 years of data, need some encryption technique, certainly wouldn't want my to-be wife to read _some_ of those entries ;)
Well, we got encryption so a little journal app should be easy to build. And since Scott Crosby recently produced a nice text indexing package for very fast text searching that would be a perfect fit.
- A bit of music (mostly MP3)
Check! Already there, SqueakAMP - works superb and looks cool!
- A bit of drawing (mostly rough concept drawings done while on the move)
Check! Try Ned Konz "Connectors" - they are perfect for that and can generate Postscript.
- PIM (Schedules, AddressBook)
Well, nothing there now apart from some PDA playstuff (I think).
~Mayuresh
regards, G�ran
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