From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <53295712.1050505@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 04:36:34 -0400 From: Caleb Malchik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: 9fans@9fans.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [9fans] GSoC proposal: Alternative window system Topicbox-Message-UUID: cbd86538-ead8-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Greetings, I am a student interested in participating in GSoC under Plan 9. My project would involve writing a new window manager as an alternative to rio: http://www.plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/alternative_window_system/index.html I thought I'd say a few words informally as my proposal is not yet ready for upload, and it would be good to get some feedback in the remaining days before the deadline. I have experience with C and Linux, but plan9port is the extent of my first-hand experience with Plan 9. I've read some of the papers and other resources and I am intrigued by the ideas behind Plan 9 and the clean implementation of those ideas. I intend to start using Plan 9 natively or in a VM soon, and I am confident I could get comfortable with the environment before the start of the summer. 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. Let me know if this sounds like a good summer-sized project for someone who is not yet well acquainted with Plan 9. Regards, Caleb Malchik