On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 20:12 (+0200), Andre Klärner wrote:
> Hi alltogether,
> On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 01:26:43AM +0200, Marc Lehmann wrote:
>> b) urxvt more prominently refers to tabbedex, for example by giving a
>> recipe to download and use it easily.
> If I might expand that thought: Is there anything like a recipe-collection
> or git-repo for posting these plugins? I think that many of you might have
> written a small plugin, or extended an existing one, which would be really
> cool to share and find somewhere.
I think that might be a nice idea. I only stumbled across tabbedex by
chance.
On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 01:26:43 (+0200), Marc Lehmann wrote:
> tabbedex is not included in rxvt-unicode because it isn't maintained
> by us, not because of possible lack of quality.
That is a good argument.
However, I tried to submit improvements a while back, but had no luck
with that. Admittedly, that may be I just didn't know which was the
right button to press (figuratively speaking).
> while it is technically possible to include it, does it have actual
> advantages?
I honestly believe so. This is not to step on the toes of anyone who
has contributed to "tabbed", but I think the additions are quite
worthwhile. If you look at the comments at the top of
http://cs.acadiau.ca/~jdiamond/tabbedex
you will see a summary of the changes. If you use tabbed, I heartily
encourage you to take a few minutes and give it a try. FWIW, these
are the resources I use with it:
URxvt.keysym.M-Left: perl:tabbedex:prev_tab
URxvt.keysym.M-Right: perl:tabbedex:next_tab
URxvt.keysym.M-S-Left: perl:tabbedex:move_tab_left
URxvt.keysym.M-S-Right: perl:tabbedex:move_tab_right
URxvt.keysym.M-Up: perl:tabbedex:rename_tab
URxvt.keysym.M-t: perl:tabbedex:new_tab
URxvt.tabbed.autohide: True
URxvt.tabbed.tab-bg: 19 ! The active tab (19 = 00/00/af)
URxvt.tabbed.tab-fg: 11 ! The active tab (11 = yellow)
URxvt.tabbed.tabbar-bg: 0 ! bg of empty space and inactive tabs
URxvt.tabbed.tabbar-fg: 246 ! text of inactive tabs, separators
URxvt.tabbed.title: False
> users would get tabbedex by default, but would probably get an
> outdated version - the release schedule of tabbedex likely doesn't
> match the release cycle of urxvt for example.
Tabbedex is not what you would call moribund, but there don't seem to
be a lot of releases.
> the only two ways to improve the rxvt<->tabbedex combination I can think of
> at the moment would be:
>
> a) the urxvt and tabbedex maintainers "merge", so it's just one project.
I like that idea. Given that you mentioned it, is it safe to assume
you would consider it?
> b) urxvt more prominently refers to tabbedex, for example by giving a
> recipe to download and use it easily.
That's also a nice idea.
Here is a third idea. I could rename my forked version as tabbedex2
(or anything that anyone would be happy with) and turn it over to you
for inclusion in rxvt-unicode. (Again, not to step on the toes of the
tabbedex maintainer(s), but just to make this more visible to the
rxvt-unicode community.)
Cheers.
Jim
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