Hey all. I am a Ruby coder with average skills (can code almost
anything, I guess), but have no knowledge of anything graphical.
I wanted to code a window manager with the goal:
"To be a window manager which can be configured -ANY- way the user wants
(ANY way.), so it can be ANY way you like, in look and feel. And be
ruby-scriptable (possibly other languages too), WITHOUT too much
configuration hassle (Not something like FVWM. It shouldn't take too
much time)"
But.. I don't have skills on the area of window management. If anyone is
interested in participating in this project (A name is yet to be maken
up), email me (robinl1@xs4all.nl).
Also, you can mail me for more information.
- Sakireth
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Robin Linthorst wrote:
Hey all. I am a Ruby coder with average skills (can code almost
anything, I guess), but have no knowledge of anything graphical.
I wanted to code a window manager with the goal:
"To be a window manager which can be configured -ANY- way the user wants
(ANY way.), so it can be ANY way you like, in look and feel. And be
ruby-scriptable (possibly other languages too), WITHOUT too much
configuration hassle (Not something like FVWM. It shouldn't take too
much time)"
But.. I don't have skills on the area of window management. If anyone is
interested in participating in this project (A name is yet to be maken
up), email me (robinl1@xs4all.nl).
Also, you can mail me for more information.
- Sakireth
You can also post in this topic. (Don't have an edit button. Bummer! :()
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Have a look at this if you want to start with a small code base.
http://incise.org/index.cgi/TinyWM
-- Erik
Robin Linthorst wrote:
> "To be a window manager which can be configured -ANY- way the user wants
> (ANY way.), so it can be ANY way you like, in look and feel. And be
> ruby-scriptable (possibly other languages too), WITHOUT too much
> configuration hassle (Not something like FVWM. It shouldn't take too
> much time)"
I hope you realize that a providing a lot of configuration options wil
automatically make configuring a hassle.
There's no edit button because ruby-forum.com is in fact a gateway to the
ruby-talk mailing list.
You might like Suraj N. Kurapati's work with ruby and wmii:
http://people.ucsc.edu/~skurapat/wmii.html which allows you to do things
like:
selected_clients.each {|c| c.tag! 'foo'}
Of course there's also MFP's ruby-wmii
(http://eigenclass.org/hiki.rb?wmii+ruby\).
You may also be interested in this, I'm keeping my eye on it:
http://zimbatm.oree.ch/articles/2006/08/29/rwm-ruby-window-manager
Alex
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On Wednesday 13 September 2006 19:44, Robin Linthorst wrote:
You can also post in this topic. (Don't have an edit button. Bummer! :()
There's no edit button because you're not on a real forum. You're
posting to a gateway that talks to a mailing list and is then
reflected to a newsgroup.
Please remember that when posting on ruby-forum. It's not the Real Thing.
-austin
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On 9/13/06, Robin Linthorst <robinl1@xs4all.nl> wrote:
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Manfred Stienstra wrote:
Robin Linthorst wrote:
> "To be a window manager which can be configured -ANY- way the user wants
> (ANY way.), so it can be ANY way you like, in look and feel. And be
> ruby-scriptable (possibly other languages too), WITHOUT too much
> configuration hassle (Not something like FVWM. It shouldn't take too
> much time)"
I hope you realize that a providing a lot of configuration options wil
automatically make configuring a hassle.
Not if you provide a standard config which you may edit any way you can,
and has a clean syntax (I am planning to store everything in Hash
format. like this:)
conf['workspaces']['size'] = '9x9'
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The hassle doesn't come from the syntax, but from the magnitude of options.
http://www.newyorker.com/critics/books/?040301crbo_books
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On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 04:38:42AM +0900, Robin Linthorst wrote:
> I hope you realize that a providing a lot of configuration options wil
> automatically make configuring a hassle.
Not if you provide a standard config which you may edit any way you can,
and has a clean syntax (I am planning to store everything in Hash
format. like this:)
conf['workspaces']['size'] = '9x9'
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Robin Linthorst wrote:
conf['workspaces']['size'] = '9x9'
Ugh. Dot-notation as an alternative?
David Vallner
This is one case where I think Paul Graham is on the money:
s-expressions would be excellent.
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On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 09:20:03AM +0900, David Vallner wrote:
Robin Linthorst wrote:
>conf['workspaces']['size'] = '9x9'
>
Ugh. Dot-notation as an alternative?
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Brian K. Reid: "In computer science, we stand on each other's feet."
> Robin Linthorst wrote:
> >conf['workspaces']['size'] = '9x9'
> >
>
> Ugh. Dot-notation as an alternative?
This is one case where I think Paul Graham is on the money:
s-expressions would be excellent.
Ah, I see you are a sawfish fan, (and perhaps don't even know it?).
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On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 10:11:38AM +0900, Chad Perrin wrote:
On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 09:20:03AM +0900, David Vallner wrote:
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Brian K. Reid: "In computer science, we stand on each other's feet."
I keep meaning to give it a whirl, but haven't gotten around to it yet.
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On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 10:21:48AM +0900, Logan Capaldo wrote:
On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 10:11:38AM +0900, Chad Perrin wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 09:20:03AM +0900, David Vallner wrote:
> > Robin Linthorst wrote:
> > >conf['workspaces']['size'] = '9x9'
> > >
> >
> > Ugh. Dot-notation as an alternative?
>
> This is one case where I think Paul Graham is on the money:
> s-expressions would be excellent.
>
Ah, I see you are a sawfish fan, (and perhaps don't even know it?).
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"The first rule of magic is simple. Don't waste your time waving your
hands and hopping when a rock or a club will do." - McCloctnick the Lucid