Bug#608230: ITP: xmonad-log-applet -- GNOME panel applet that displays xmonad log messages using D-Bus
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 10:00:47AM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le mardi 28 décembre 2010 à 21:20 -0200, Rafael Cunha de Almeida a écrit : Xmonad is able to print status messages using D-Bus interface. This GNOME panel applet is able to display that information to the user. It is capable of displaying information such as window title and current workspace number. I think it could be the case of this going to gnome-applets. The reason I think it probably shouldn't go there is that this is a very specific applet, for people who use gnome together with xmonad, instead of metacity. So having it in gnome-applets would probably be confusing to users not familiar with this sort of things. I don’t understand the reason for making this xmonad-specific. Why not improve the wnck applet so that it is able to just display the title of the currently active window, instead? xmonad-log-applet allows for any string to be written to it. So I print the current window layout, the current workspace and the window name. The way I have xmonad setup it even paints red the number of the workspace which has a window with the urgency bit set. I could configure things differently, xmonad has a feature called logHook that allows you to output all kinds of status information. Of course, all that could be implemented by coding window list and workspace switcher, though it would probably need a new applet for showing the layout status anyway. However, I think having an applet for printing xmonad's logHook information (or any string, for that matter) is much easier to implement (it is already done) and much more flexible. All in all, it serves well my purposes and I intend to keep on using it. If it's of interest for Debian community, I can maintain the package. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#608230: ITP: xmonad-log-applet -- GNOME panel applet that displays xmonad log messages using D-Bus
Le mardi 28 décembre 2010 à 21:20 -0200, Rafael Cunha de Almeida a écrit : Xmonad is able to print status messages using D-Bus interface. This GNOME panel applet is able to display that information to the user. It is capable of displaying information such as window title and current workspace number. I think it could be the case of this going to gnome-applets. The reason I think it probably shouldn't go there is that this is a very specific applet, for people who use gnome together with xmonad, instead of metacity. So having it in gnome-applets would probably be confusing to users not familiar with this sort of things. I don’t understand the reason for making this xmonad-specific. Why not improve the wnck applet so that it is able to just display the title of the currently active window, instead? Cheers, -- .''`. : :' : “You would need to ask a lawyer if you don't know `. `' that a handshake of course makes a valid contract.” `--- J???rg Schilling -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#608230: ITP: xmonad-log-applet -- GNOME panel applet that displays xmonad log messages using D-Bus
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Rafael Cunha de Almeida raf...@kontesti.me * Package name: xmonad-log-applet Version : 1.0.2 Upstream Author : Adam Wick * URL : http://uhsure.com/xmonad-log-applet.html * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description : GNOME panel applet that displays xmonad log messages using D-Bus Xmonad is able to print status messages using D-Bus interface. This GNOME panel applet is able to display that information to the user. It is capable of displaying information such as window title and current workspace number. I think it could be the case of this going to gnome-applets. The reason I think it probably shouldn't go there is that this is a very specific applet, for people who use gnome together with xmonad, instead of metacity. So having it in gnome-applets would probably be confusing to users not familiar with this sort of things. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
