Cohesive compilation of hacks?
On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 7:56 PM, Bence Fábián <[email protected]> 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 <[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 >> >> >
