On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 06:38:23PM +0000, Andy Gimblett wrote: > On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 10:35:26AM -0800, Suraj N. Kurapati wrote: > > Anselm R. Garbe wrote: > > > I think a 9P interface is too exeggerated for the > > > purpose of a window manager. To keep the same flexibility but > > > with a much simplier approach, you could think about defining a > > > command interface which is read from stdin and special results > > > written to stdout. > > > > The technology used to implement the remote-control interface will > > change (standard pipe instead of 9P). However, will the same level > > of remote-control functionality be kept? > > > > I don't want to have /less/ ability of manipulating clients, views, > > etc. than before. > > Indeed. And it's not just about control - it's also about reading > state (not just "special results", whatever they are). For this > purpose, the current system seems to work rather well.
It was a random thought, don't take it too seriously ;) It's up to Denis to make any decisions... Regards, -- Anselm R. Garbe >< http://suckless.org/~arg/ >< GPG key: 0D73F361
