Re: [9fans] GSoC proposal: Alternative window system

[Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com>]

On Wed, 19 Mar 2014 04:36:34 EDT Caleb Malchik <cmalchik@gmail.com> wrote:
> For my project, I would build a tiling window manager similar to dwm
> (what I use on Linux). I think a dwm-style interface that could be
> controlled from the keyboard would provide a nice contrast to what we
> already have with rio, and as we see from dwm the implementation of such
> an interface needn't be complex. Development would involve modifying the
> rio source code to implement the basic functions of a
> tiling/keyboard-controlled window manager one by one.

I will throw out some rio/acme related ideas. Hope people find
them interesting enough to want to experiment.

- display size aware (when attached to an external display vs
  the builtin one of a laptop).
- dpi aware (pick the right size font)
- borderless windows (adjoining windows have different color)
  (but edges are sensitive to resizing etc)
- auto splitting of windows. The idea is to see if window size
  fiddling can be minimized (ideally it should /learn/ personal
  preferences)
- allow the window with "focus" to be made much much larger to
  help a user's focus (make other windows less distracting --
  IIRC there was a web based spreadsheet that did that. Don't
  recall its name).
- allow windows to be scrolled in lockstep (in x, y or both
  directions)
- support for multiple displays
- allow programmatic control of all this via a synthetic FS

Not sure if there exists a usable unification of acme + rio
but that would be nice.