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
>
>