On 5/25/07, Quentin Mathé <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Le 25 mai 07 à 11:45, David Chisnall a écrit : > > > I don't have any problem with merging AZBackground and Idle. While I > > haven't managed it, I think there is a slight chance that a > > sufficiently bad user-supplied script could do some bad things to > > Corner. If it were to be merged, I might want to start spawning an > > external process (stexec) to run the scripts, or being a bit more > > paranoid in the clean up. Of course, if the root window is being > > used to check mouse positions, it makes sense to merge Corner and > > AZBackground too... > > > > That said, I also don't have a problem with having lots of little > > tools. On every *NIX other than OS X, you get sensible process > > limits and so won't have problems with running out. We waste a > > little RAM, but get extra stability, and more effective use of multi- > > core chips. It's also worth keeping in mind that some of these small > > tools may grow. I plan on adding mouse gesture support to Corner, > > and I could see Idle being used to provide other notifications. I'm > > not sure what the plans are for AZBackground. > > I agree with David, I would prefer to keep Idle and Corner distinct. > If we finally decide to merge them, putting AZBackground and Corner > makes sense, but Idle should stand alone (may be as a reusable > notification related daemon) or simply be merged within System. > Another option would be to merge it with SystemConfig to-be-written > daemon which will also broadcast notifications.
So the conclusion would be that we keep what we have now and see how it evolves in the future. :) Yen-Ju > > Cheers, > Quentin. > _______________________________________________ > Etoile-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/etoile-discuss > _______________________________________________ Etoile-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/etoile-discuss
