On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 04:07:55PM +0200, pancake wrote: > If we just implement this stuff into separated .c or .h files, so everybody > can still use the basic x11 stuff, or just use cairo/pango or..maybe someone > would like to use it on w32 or osx, so, these guys will just have to > implement > this little backend, and keep all the dwm internals clean and portable for > all the systems and backends (also for ncurses?).
>From my experience of "porting" dwm to win32[1] I can only say that in theory this sounds like a perfect solution but in practice it won't work because you will have to work around some random misfeatures of the target platform. > The problem here is > that actually all the keybinding stuff depends on X, and there are other > stuff that is pretty linked to X11, and if we want to drop this hard X11 > binding we should try to split it up into a set of callbacks. Depending on how much callbacks you would need, this will just clutter the dwm source for now obvious benefit. Regards, Marc [1] http://lists.suckless.org/dwm/0904/7891.html -- Marc Andre Tanner >< http://www.brain-dump.org/ >< GPG key: CF7D56C0
