Re: [9fans] [GSOC] graphics projects

[erik quanstrom <quanstro@labs.coraid.com>]

2013/4/26 Peter A. Cejchan <tyapca7@gmail.com>:
>> Also, keep in mind that there is already a well known and popular tiling
>> environment in Plan 9. If you are able to make a window manager with an acme
>> feeling I'm sure many users would be interested. The challenge here is to
>> have the good taste > required to come up with the right design, and that's
>> quite a challenge.
>
> Adding graphics capabilities to Acme would be nice. Just IMHO.

perhaps too large for a summer's work.

at a lower level, there are a number of drawing issues that really should be addressed.
for example, the current draw model has stringwidth() but not stringheight().
the font is assumed to have a uniform height.  this is a fine assumption for ascii,
but breaks down for even latin1, e.g. Â.  either the A needs to be unreasonablly
cramped to fit the hat, or every line (regardless of height) needs too much inter-line
spacing.  a better solution would be to lower the baseline as necessary to fit the line.

- erik