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Assembling team for Ruby window manager

Robin Linthorst

9/13/2006 6:32:00 PM

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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11 Answers

Robin Linthorst

9/13/2006 6:44:00 PM

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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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Manfred Stienstra

9/13/2006 7:08:00 PM

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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.

A. S. Bradbury

9/13/2006 7:13:00 PM

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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 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... 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...).

You may also be interested in this, I'm keeping my eye on it:
http://zimbatm.oree.ch/articles/2006/08/29/rwm-ruby-wind...

Alex

Austin Ziegler

9/13/2006 7:17:00 PM

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On 9/13/06, Robin Linthorst <robinl1@xs4all.nl> 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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Robin Linthorst

9/13/2006 7:39:00 PM

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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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Jaime G. Wong

9/13/2006 7:47:00 PM

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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'

The hassle doesn't come from the syntax, but from the magnitude of options.
http://www.newyorker.com/critics/books/?040301...

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David Vallner

9/14/2006 12:20:00 AM

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Robin Linthorst wrote:
> conf['workspaces']['size'] = '9x9'
>

Ugh. Dot-notation as an alternative?

David Vallner

Chad Perrin

9/14/2006 1:12:00 AM

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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?

This is one case where I think Paul Graham is on the money:
s-expressions would be excellent.

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Brian K. Reid: "In computer science, we stand on each other's feet."

Logan Capaldo

9/14/2006 1:22:00 AM

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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:
> > 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?).
> --
> CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.ap... ]
> Brian K. Reid: "In computer science, we stand on each other's feet."

Chad Perrin

9/14/2006 3:54:00 AM

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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?).

I keep meaning to give it a whirl, but haven't gotten around to it yet.

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hands and hopping when a rock or a club will do." - McCloctnick the Lucid