It would be good to have a bash driven script where one can choose widgets with their order, menu entries with order, keyboard/ mouse shortcuts, theme or background colour, fonts etc. It should produce rc.lua and a back up of the last good rc.lua.
Regards Mohan Sundaram Mobile mail, please pardon autocomplete /autoreplace typos On Jun 21, 2014 7:40 PM, "Alexis Brenon" <brenon.ale...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yes, something like this, but without the UI design part (that seems to be > quite difficult to make), because as I remember, in awesome, wiboxes can > only be on top, left, right, bottom, not anywhere on screen. > > I will do some sketches this evening. > > Best, > Alexis > > > 2014-06-21 15:47 GMT+02:00 Evgeny Pakhomov <p1hi...@gmail.com>: > >> You can see how Qt Designer handles signals and slots (it's how Qt >> implemented callbacks) at this video: >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYohbT6oUDM#t=350 >> >> Yes, some sketch or use case will surely help. >> >> Regards, >> Eugene >> >> >> On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 8:36 PM, Alexis Brenon <brenon.ale...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi Eugene, >>> >>> Thanks for the answer. I never used Qt Designer so I don't very know >>> what it looks like. But I imagine that you can define your tags (with >>> shifty or not), define your common widgets (with common callbacks and >>> format (for example for clock, volume, battery), or custom (if you have >>> particular need) and place them as you want. >>> >>> I don't know if it's very clear. Maybe some sketchup and/or use case >>> will help to identify features. >>> >>> Best, >>> Alexis >>> >>> >>> 2014-06-21 15:26 GMT+02:00 Evgeny Pakhomov <p1hi...@gmail.com>: >>> >>> Hi Alexis, >>>> >>>> I think it's an interesting idea, at least from the development >>>> challenge perspective. >>>> >>>> But how do you see it? Will it be something like Qt Designer, so a user >>>> will be available to define new widgets, configure and add them to his >>>> desktops? Or something that will change only the existing layout? >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> Eugene >>>> >>>> >>>> On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 3:20 PM, Alexis Brenon <brenon.ale...@gmail.com >>>> > wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hello folks ! >>>>> >>>>> I've got an idea. What about an AwesomeWM configuration generator. A >>>>> small soft which allow new users to easily discover all (or at least many) >>>>> options that awesome offer. >>>>> >>>>> In my head, the most important feature is to generate readable file >>>>> with comments which allow anyone to learn awesome API reading the >>>>> generated >>>>> file. >>>>> >>>>> Is there an app that already exists for this ? Is anybody interested >>>>> in this kind of soft ? Is anybody interested to take part in the dev >>>>> process ? >>>>> >>>>> Bye, >>>>> Have a good day ! >>>>> >>>>> Alexis BRENON >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >> >
