Re: [9front] [PATCH] programmable menus for rio

[Jacob Moody <moody@mail.posixcafe.org>]

On 8/23/22 20:46, ori@eigenstate.org wrote:
> Quoth Jacob Moody <moody@mail.posixcafe.org>:
>> Something I've been playing with is a way of exposing part of the rio
>> menu to the programs running within it. This is a bit of a simple
>> approach, but I would like to gauge interest that people have in
>> something along these lines before continuing.
>>
>> This adds a /dev/menu file that can be written to
>> to add new entries to the button3menu. The file
>> can be read to get the text string of an added
>> menu entry when hit by the user.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> moody
>>
> 
> It seems like an interesting trick -- but, the
> programs that might use it would already likely
> be graphical, no?
> 

Switching languages via special character in ktrans
doesn't feel quite right to me. I wanted a graphical
way of switching them, and it seemed like something
I wanted on the rio menu.

I considered making ktrans itself graphical, but then this
complicates combining it with other filters.

This was the next step in iterating ways of getting
something I liked. Perhaps ktrans is special in this
regard. I think it could be generalized to programs
that are aiming to kind of slot in to rio instead
of run as a graphic program like ktrans is.

Maybe the solution is that ktrans serves an interface
like kbdmap optionally with a flag or the like.

Just kind of thinking aloud here.