On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 10:58:13AM +0200, Anselm R. Garbe wrote: > On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 09:09:30PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Looks like they're shooting for <400 lines of code: > > > > http://lennartkolmodin.blogspot.com/2007/04/xmonad.html > > http://xmonad.org/ > > I think it's very cool that people try to clone dwm in different > PLs. However, I doubt it is achievable in lesser than 400 LOC > without hiding a lot of stuff into a separate package/lib namely > X11-extras - which is part of dwm itself ;) > > As a side-note: I believe that a higher level library than Xlib > might be a great invention - something between widget libs and > Xlib itself, which can be used for drawing and which does work > with threads instead of a state machine... Such a lib would > allow to finish simple X apps in a couple of hours and to hide > all braindamage which has evolved during ICCCM and now EWMH > times...
Apart from that such lib would increase the portability of things like dmenu/dwm to other platforms such as Windows... Regards, -- Anselm R. Garbe >< http://www.suckless.org/ >< GPG key: 0D73F361
