I am sticking to FLTK for creating windows. It wraps the pure native window manager into a cross platform API o.o. Maybe take a look!~ Am Mi. Feb. 19 2014 10:28:57 schrieb David Chisnall:
> On 18 Feb 2014, at 22:06, Germán Arias <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 2014-02-18 13:31:00 -0600 carlos antonio neira bustos >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi All, >>> >>> I'm trying to build a gnustep desktop, window maker is the only window >>> manager that is recommended to use, I also read about a window manager >>> called backbone but I'dont know if that is still in active development. >>> Which are the main tasks to code to make a window manager aware of gnustep >>> applications ?. >>> >> >> What think about use Guile-WM? >> >> http://www.markwitmer.com/guile-xcb/guile-wm.html >> >> I've been thinking that this is a good basis to make a window manager for >> GNUstep. > > If you're interested, the Services/Private/ProjectManager directory in the > Étoilé repo has the start of an XCB-based window manager that I was working > on. I got sidetracked by other projects in the meantime. Christopher > Armstrong did some code cleanups. More patches would be welcome. > > It contains a fairly lightweight set of XCB wrappers (in the XCBKit > subdirectory) and then some higher-level code that uses them. It does > compositing and window movement, but very little else. It intentionally > doesn't do window decoration, as the intention was to delegate a lot of this > to the menu server, so windows would have resize handles when they are active > (just as objects in a typical DTP-style UI do), but not at other times and > the window title and close/minimise/zoom buttons would be provided in the > menu bar. > > David > > > > > -- Sent from my Difference Engine > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss-gnustep mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
