On 6/4/06, Nicolas Roard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 6/4/06, Yen-Ju Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> wmii3 is an interesting window manager:
> http://wmii.de/index.php?page=about
>
> It has a dynamic window placement.
> The one in Azalea is not working very well.
> And it supports scripting for window management.
> That's why I am interesting in scripting of GNUstep recently.
> Scripting is a recent trend of window manager developement.
> It givies advanced users more flexibility to manage their desktops.
> Say automatically change color of window title to red when opened
> document is under
> directory 'Work/' and blue for directory 'Home/'.
> And when your boss comes in,
> a key shortcut can hide all the window with blue titles. :)
I'm not that interested in scripting my window manager ... however... Azalea
could export to StepTalk some of its internal objects and then you could do
whatever you want... (even if I'm not exactly convainced by the utility anyway).
On the other hand, talking about nice things in window manager... something
that would be _really_ cool would be clustering of windows (tabbed windows).
Well, I am not that fancy about tabbed windows.
I believe it is a good idea to 'tab' the same kind of windows together,
but not mix the different kinds of windows.
To me, a tabbed web browser or terminal emulator is good.
But tabbing web browser and terminal emulator in one 'tabbed' window
is not so good.
In this case, 'tab' becomes the responbility of each application,
like Firefox,
but not window manager.
Anyway, tabbed window is not a high priority now. :P
I have to strip down Azalea first and rewrite the stripped function
in other applications,
then use NSWindow as underneath window for drawing and font.
Then we can talk about the new features.
Yen-Ju
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Nicolas Roard
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