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It isn't the ssh protocol(mostly), it is the user interface. Mapping a physical keyboard and display onto a touchscreen/display involves tradeoffs. • The keyb
by jws 16y ago
It isn't the ssh protocol(mostly), it is the user interface.
Mapping a physical keyboard and display onto a touchscreen/display involves tradeoffs.
• The keyboard I am using right now is >50% larger than my entire iPad display. It won't fit even if I sacrifice the entire display to keyboard.
• Will you overlay the keyboard on the character matrix? How do you know where to put it that you won't cover the part I'm trying to see? I generally want to see the bottom, that is pretty much worst case.
• I need a control and escape key for command line editing, and I need a dozen symbols plus the digits to type normal unix commands. The keyboard is getting either pretty big, or multiplexed.
When you use ssh on a unix machine, you are taking advantage of infrastructure that isn't there on the iPad, like the ability to scp your keys and favorite configuration file into a .ssh directory.
• How bizarre is the sequence to get my encrypted private keys into my iPad?
• How complicated are you going to make the preferences? Just the default ssh client config on Debian is showing 34 options and I've got ones that aren't in the list in my personal config file.
What makes this unique to iOS?
# aptitude search '?provides(x-terminal-emulator)' | wc -l
32
… really? I need to sort through 32 terminal emulators to use ssh on my Debian machine? Is that before or after I choose between the 44 window managers? And they all think they are pretty special. At least I only have 5 display managers to choose from.
Nobody apologizes in their marketing copy for speciating.
- krakensden 16y ago> really? I need to sort through 32 terminal emulators to use ssh on my Debian machine? Really? Unless you installed debian-minimal, and installed the gui piecemeal from there, your system came with a terminal emulator (gnome-terminal or kterm) in a nice menu, which will work perfectly as soon as you type 'ssh myserver.tld'. Besides, it's not like Prompt is the only terminal emulator/ssh client available on the app store. A quick google reveals there is also iSSH, TouchTerm, Terminal 426, and pTerm.
- jws 16y agoReally? – yes. Normally I go with the defaults, but on my netbook for linux work on the road I didn't want to lose a lot of screen real estate to menu bars and window ornaments. Honestly I was only using X because the dark blue on black text in some emacs coloration was illegible, but fixing the console to get dark blue far enough off of black to be legible eluded me. I nearly got there with 'slim' and 'awesome' and one of the terminal emulators, but then when I needed to pop up gimp for the odd image fix it was unusable. (tiled window manager meets the legion of floating windows with strange ideas about window manager hinting.) I hate to say it, but it wore me down. I relegated the netbook to machine room console duty, bought a lighter main laptop, and just use VirtualBox to run my portable linux machine. My laptop load is 50% lighter, and the virtual linux box is faster than the netbook anyway. A much better solution. (and dark blue on black is legible on this machine).
- nevinera 16y ago>tiled window manager meets the legion of floating windows with strange ideas about window manager hinting In case you still care, XMonad has some special configs to allow gimp to crap its windows all over some virtual desktop (which I recommend you reserve solely for gimp).