On Wed, 19 Mar 2014 04:36:34 EDT Caleb Malchik <cmalc...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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.
I will throw out some rio/acme related ideas. Hope people find them interesting enough to want to experiment. - display size aware (when attached to an external display vs the builtin one of a laptop). - dpi aware (pick the right size font) - borderless windows (adjoining windows have different color) (but edges are sensitive to resizing etc) - auto splitting of windows. The idea is to see if window size fiddling can be minimized (ideally it should /learn/ personal preferences) - allow the window with "focus" to be made much much larger to help a user's focus (make other windows less distracting -- IIRC there was a web based spreadsheet that did that. Don't recall its name). - allow windows to be scrolled in lockstep (in x, y or both directions) - support for multiple displays - allow programmatic control of all this via a synthetic FS Not sure if there exists a usable unification of acme + rio but that would be nice.
