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

[Shane Morris <edgecomberts@gmail.com>]

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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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