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

["Peter A. Cejchan" <tyapca7@gmail.com>]

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It would be nice to have something like old Oberon OS had; I think acme was
inspired in part by it (I may be wrong).
Some time ago, I had some ideas on windowing design;  were anyone
interested, they're here:
http/www.gli.cas.cz/home/cejchan/plan9/newUI.pdf
http/www.gli.cas.cz/home/cejchan/plan9/newUI+page.pdf
http/www.gli.cas.cz/home/cejchan/plan9/newUI+page-fullscreen.pdf

Best regards,
Peter.


On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 10:01 AM, Shane Morris <edgecomberts@gmail.com>wrote:

> Cohesive compilation of hacks?
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 7:56 PM, Bence Fábián <begnoc@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> We already have a lot of hacks to make rio tiling.
>> In my opinion the most interesting/worthwhile
>> projects mentioned on that wiki is to make things
>> touchscreen friendly.
>>
>>
>> 2014-03-19 9:36 GMT+01:00 Caleb Malchik <cmalchik@gmail.com>:
>>
>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>
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