On Wed, 13 May 2009 06:24:23 +0200 Christopher Roy Bratusek <[email protected]> wrote:
> Am Dienstag, den 12.05.2009, 20:56 -0400 schrieb Eli Barzilay: > > On May 12, Christopher Roy Bratusek wrote: > > > Am Dienstag, den 12.05.2009, 13:58 +0900 schrieb Teika Kazura: > > > > One more bad point is there: not for dev, but that users of > > > > Sawfish have to learn Rep. > > > > > > ... if we switch they'll have to learn <xyz> instead of rep, that > > > not a valid point against rep in favour of lisp/scheme. > > > > I meant the learning thing in general, and we were talking about users, > not developers. > > ... of course there's not much to read about rep. But well librep is > open for development, current version in trunk is 0.90, theoretically > librep can be completely rewritten to be the best solution, if that is > desired. But that seems not to be the case. > > (some) THINGS THAT THE REPLACEMENT FOR REP NEEDS TO HAVE: > > - who rewrites the whole(!) lisp part? (I don't have the time, currently > fully rewriting a project of mine and don't want to do that again ^_^;) > > - replacement needs real gtk support (replacements with > gtk-widget-abstraction like oo.o or ff will be rejected!) > > - replacement needs gtkbuilder support (we want the sawfish-themer back) > > - replacement needs gtk/gnome 3 support not too long after they have > been released stray thought: guile. It's scheme, was originally designed for gnome, and is maintained. However gtk support is not integral. Both guile-gtk and guild-gnome seem to be unmaintained, but both support gtk 2.x in their last editions. I have no idea of the quality of the gtk implementations in either, I'm just putting the guile idea out in case there's nothing better. guile: http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/ guile-gtk: http://www.gnu.org/software/guile-gtk/ guile-gnome: http://www.gnu.org/software/guile-gnome/ -- Ethan Grammatikidis
