From: Marshall Conover <marzhall.o@gmail.com>
To: "9fans@9fans.net" <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: [9fans] The correct way to do an incorrect thing
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2016 23:07:26 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAK0pxsHc+dmQj6OyK-gkTGDjrY8r3F8pWzMosC4vwZVaW7ZZgg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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Hi all!
As an awful person, I hacked rio's data.c to support backgrounds. Because
the default code took a 1-by-1 pixel grey image and tiled it, I just shoved
a line in there to load an image file instead using readimage(). (Hacked
really is the appropriate word here.)
My question is, would the plan9 approach to this (assuming this were a plan
9 thing to do in the first place) be to add a command line argument to rio
that lets the user specify a file, or would it be to present some file
somewhere the user can write a background to? E.g., `cat
/usr/glenda/backgrounds/bg.bit > /rio/bg`.
If there are any papers or man pages that'd be good to read for this
question, I'd appreciate a finger in that direction.
Thanks!
mars
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-28 23:07 Marshall Conover [this message]
2016-09-28 23:58 ` Erik Quanstrom
2016-09-29 7:48 ` hiro
2016-09-29 7:54 ` Harri Haataja
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