Hi all, I was inspired by the fedora test day to try out gnome shell again. I must say, it's looking very nice.
I am a fan of tiling window managers, but want to use one that is - friendlier - less rigid - shiny! I currently use xmonad, but it's definitely lacking in the shiny and not-so-rigid departments, and apparently that won't be an option with gnome 3 anyway (since it has to run under mutter). Since I might well have to change window managers anyway if I want to use gnome3, I thought now might be an excellent time to write my ideal window manager. I've got a brief outline here of the system I want to have / implement: http://gfxmonk.net/2011/02/06/my-ideal-window-manager.html so I'm mostly wondering if you kind folk could educate me as to how it could be done. My main questions: - can it be done in javascript, as a gnome-shell plugin? - if not, how about a hybrid JS / C plugin (one plugin each for mutter and gnome-shell?) - failing that, can it be done as a mutter plugin? (this is my least favourite option) I am reasonably adept at hacking JS. I have done a bunch of C, but would rather not have to do too much of that. I have built gnome-shell from source (thanks for making that so easy), and found the js/windowManager.js file of interest. If I were to implement some sort of tiling window manager, would it be best to - replace this file - monkey patch it - add my own version of it, and tell gnome-shell to use it instead of the existing one If you know of similar efforts, or tutoriales / articles that might help me get started, could you please mention them here? I've googled, but couldn't find much info aside from discussion of the aero-snap-like features already in the shell. Thanks for any guidance you can provide :) - Tim Cuthbertson. _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
