SmartPlacement (was Re: On the matter of the next bb release)

2001-11-26 Thread Wilbert Berendsen
Yesterday at 4:24pm, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry said: Here are a few of my intial findings. The proposed algorithm relies on knowing the location of all windows. It then creates a list of the uncovered desktop area expressed in rectangles. This means that there would need to be

Re: SmartPlacement (was Re: On the matter of the next bb release)

2001-11-26 Thread Bradley T Hughes
On Monday 26 November 2001 12:28, Wilbert Berendsen wrote: Yesterday at 4:24pm, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry said: Here are a few of my intial findings. The proposed algorithm relies on knowing the location of all windows. It then creates a list of the uncovered desktop area expressed in

Re: SmartPlacement (was Re: On the matter of the next bb release)

2001-11-26 Thread Wilbert Berendsen
regarding proposed smartplacement algoritm: On Monday 26 November 2001 12:28, Wilbert Berendsen wrote: Yesterday at 4:24pm, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry said: Here are a few of my intial findings. The proposed algorithm relies on knowing the location of all windows. It then creates a list of

Re: On the matter of the next bb release

2001-11-25 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Sat, 2001-11-24 at 23:32, Jamin W. Collins wrote: On Sat, 2001-11-24 at 15:13, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: If anyone is willing and able to translate our friends text I would appreciate it -- it may not be used but another view point is always good. I'm no C/C++ wizard, but I'd be

Re: On the matter of the next bb release

2001-11-25 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
Here are a few of my intial findings. The proposed algorithm relies on knowing the location of all windows. It then creates a list of the uncovered desktop area expressed in rectangles. This means that there would need to be notifications sent on all window placements and moves. I will

Re: On the matter of the next bb release

2001-11-25 Thread Seann Alexander
On Sunday 25 November 2001 18:44, you wrote: On Sat, 2001-11-24 at 23:32, Jamin W. Collins wrote: On Sat, 2001-11-24 at 15:13, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: If anyone is willing and able to translate our friends text I would appreciate it -- it may not be used but another view point is

Re: On the matter of the next bb release

2001-11-25 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
yay bloat ware. thats exactly what I want blackbox to become, maybe you can call it blackbox^2 to express how much more resources it'll take. You are assuming that the algorithm is more expensive than the one we have now. This has not been tested yet. You are also assuming it is

Re: On the matter of the next bb release

2001-11-25 Thread Jason vanRijn Kasper
* [11/25/01 23:45] Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, * Sean 'Shaleh' Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] walks into mine and says: My goals for blackbox are as follows: infrastructure: have a current and updating website a bug tracker so that we do not rely on the memory of this

Re: On the matter of the next bb release

2001-11-24 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Sat, 2001-11-24 at 15:13, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: If anyone is willing and able to translate our friends text I would appreciate it -- it may not be used but another view point is always good. I'm no C/C++ wizard, but I'd be willing to take a stab at translating it. I'd be happy to