nanogui: Progress (or lack of it)
Subject:
RE: Progress (or lack of it)
From:
Greg Haerr ####@####.####
Date:
18 Jun 1999 16:52:11 -0000
Message-Id: <01BEB977.260A5250.greg@censoft.com>
: I've just had another thought, we might be able to get away with one
: configurable, modular, window manager. Ie. all the bells and whistles such
: as a screen saver, background image loader, config script parser, focus
: policies, window placement policies, etc. are all configurable parts of
: one linked in window management engine.
That's definitely the right idea.
There would probably always be
: some basic core (probably no more than a few KB) which does nothing with
: events except perhaps intercept some key combination which tells the
: server to exit, has the most basic window placement and focus policies
: possible (might as well shift the focus responsibility to the WM), etc.
This was the approach I took for the win32 stuff, and the server
is 35k text, 7k data including the sample application.
As others have mentioned, if the window manager has a known api,
and is implemented in a separate file, then anyone can hack it if they
don't like it, and it doesn't affect anything else.
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