Re: FVWM: GSoC 2012: Project ideas

2012-02-25 Thread Thomas Adam
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 11:06:46AM +, Thomas Adam wrote: > All, > > Whilst I appreciate that organisations need not worry about this until the > end of February, I'll be moving house then so I need to start thinking about > this now, rather than later. And to make a start on this, I've create

Re: FVWM: Touch Screens

2012-02-25 Thread David Fries
On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 01:59:41PM +0900, Julien Guertault wrote: > On Sat, Feb 25, 2012, Thomas Adam : > > On Fri, Feb 24, 2012, Michael Grosser : > > > >> Would it make sense to let touch screen support be a project idea > >> for GSoC 2012 or any other year in the future? > > > > No -- because I,

Re: FVWM: Touch Screens

2012-02-25 Thread Michael Großer
Dan Espen wrote: > Michael Großer writes: >> When no WM is running, then no frames are around windows. > > Exactly. > >> Does a WM draw the frames around windows or does a >> WM instruct X to draw frames around windows? > > Is this rhetorical? You just answered your own question. When X.org d

Re: FVWM: Touch Screens

2012-02-25 Thread Dan Espen
Michael Großer writes: > Julien Guertault wrote: >> 2012/2/25 Thomas Adam : >>> On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 12:02:48PM +0100, Michael Großer wrote: Good point: Multiple mouse pointers, for example to change the size of windows with two fingers. Is this rather "easy to implement" or rather >

Re: FVWM: GSoC 2012: Project ideas

2012-02-25 Thread Thomas Adam
On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 08:47:12AM -0500, MK wrote: > On Sat, 25 Feb 2012 11:16:58 + > Thomas Adam wrote: > > But until we decide to do it that way, it's a little moot, and it > > would require some thought and design. > > > > Great for a project for GSoC I'd say, because thankfully I've plen

Re: FVWM: GSoC 2012: Project ideas

2012-02-25 Thread MK
On Sat, 25 Feb 2012 11:16:58 + Thomas Adam wrote: > But until we decide to do it that way, it's a little moot, and it > would require some thought and design. > > Great for a project for GSoC I'd say, because thankfully I've plenty > of ideas on this. :P I like these ideas too, although I'l

Re: FVWM: Touch Screens

2012-02-25 Thread Michael Großer
Julien Guertault wrote: > 2012/2/25 Thomas Adam : >> On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 12:02:48PM +0100, Michael Großer wrote: >>> Good point: Multiple mouse pointers, for example to change the size of >>> windows with two fingers. Is this rather "easy to implement" or rather >>> "utterly impossible to imple

Re: FVWM: Touch Screens

2012-02-25 Thread Julien Guertault
2012/2/25 Thomas Adam : > On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 12:02:48PM +0100, Michael Großer wrote: >> Good point: Multiple mouse pointers, for example to change the size of >> windows with two fingers. Is this rather "easy to implement" or rather >> "utterly impossible to implement". The answer to this ques

Re: FVWM: GSoC 2012: Project ideas

2012-02-25 Thread Thomas Adam
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 06:32:46PM -0500, Chris Siebenmann wrote: > The simple answer is that a good Pythonic or Perl-oid or Ruby-oid > library will expose a different sort of interface than a C-level FFI. Exactly. I don't care if some other language decided not to expose the C api those languag

Re: FVWM: Touch Screens

2012-02-25 Thread Thomas Adam
On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 12:02:48PM +0100, Michael Großer wrote: > Good point: Multiple mouse pointers, for example to change the size of > windows with two fingers. Is this rather "easy to implement" or rather > "utterly impossible to implement". The answer to this question > could be crucial about

Re: FVWM: Touch Screens

2012-02-25 Thread Michael Großer
Perhaps my statement about "the question is answered" was a bit premature yesterday in the evening. I'm pleased that my initial question attracts wide interest in this list. Julien Guertault wrote: > On Sat, Feb 25, 2012, Thomas Adam : >> On Fri, Feb 24, 2012, Michael Grosser : >> >>> Would it