On Wed, 10 Jan 2018 20:38:27 +0000 Stephen Houston <smhousto...@gmail.com> said:
i'm going to put my take on this: i think this is bad. it flies in the face of everything e was built to do. to be efficient. having a process per gadget is horribly inefficient. this is precisely what helps bloat out gnome and kde memory footprints and what has kept e lean. while avoiding e crashing due to a bad gadget is a good thing, the following is just a bad way to do it. 2 other alternatives: 1. have a SINGLE "gadget process" to hold all gadgets and load modules into this process, so we don't have 20 processes, but instead have just e + gadget process. 2. remote ui. gadgets could be written in any language that can do stdio. they echo/printf commands to e to create objects and change their state, and e "echos" back on stdin events and things the gadget should know. your gadget could be a stripped down super-lean basic libc executable. python. shell script. anything that can do stdio. while this still has 1 process per gadget - it's for the back-end only and this should make then far leaner than with a full ui. i actually wanted to spend time on #2 but am busy with efl atrm. #2 would be great because it'd massively lower the work needed to quickly make a gadget of your own. write it in python or shell quickly and dirtily and life would be easy. > Hello, > > I would like to point everyone to a new wiki page we have that details > developing gadgets for Enlightenment using the sandbox method. > > https://www.enlightenment.org/develop/e/sandbox_gadgets > > Feel free to use the guide to create cool new gadgets for E and make sure > you contribute back feedback about the guide so we can improve it as needed. > > Thanks! > Stephen (okra) > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _______________________________________________ > enlightenment-devel mailing list > enlightenment-de...@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel > -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- Carsten Haitzler - ras...@rasterman.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
