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 <[email protected]>: > 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 > >
