Re: [dev] SWK: The simple widget kit

2010-05-10 Thread Mate Nagy
On Sun, May 09, 2010 at 08:42:48PM -0700, Robert Ransom wrote: You need a definition of 'suckless user interface' before you start specifying guidelines for how to produce one. Here's a draft: A suckless user interface is: * useful, * usable, * transparent, * either

Re: [dev] SWK: The simple widget kit

2010-05-10 Thread pancake
- Original message - Does suckless really need a WIMP-toolkit? I hope not. Well...this design is not wimp at all, there's no plans to add menus. And the thing is that curses is broken and depends on quite broken text console interface. The idea was trying to offer a cleaner way to do

Re: [dev] SWK: The simple widget kit

2010-05-10 Thread Antoni Grzymala
Mate Nagy dixit (2010-05-10, 09:47): you don't design suckless software for the user. You educate the user first, then design software for the new, enlightened man. Sounds like we've had that history lesson in the thirties... -- [a]

Re: [dev] SWK: The simple widget kit

2010-05-10 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Mon, 10 May 2010 10:00:12 +0200 pancake panc...@youterm.com wrote: I really prefer to tap my phone than open the keyboard and type a 4 pipe command. Which is not the same situation on desktop...where keyboard is preferible. +1 Dieter

Re: [dev] SWK: The simple widget kit

2010-05-10 Thread Gregor Best
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 10:20:33AM +0200, pancake wrote: [...] * support for right-to-left scripts, Point this understand dont I. [...] There are languages (such as arabic) that are not written in the latin left-to-right fashion but exactly the other way round (i.e. you have to start reading

Re: [dev] SWK: The simple widget kit

2010-05-10 Thread Mate Nagy
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 10:31:29AM +0200, Gregor Best wrote: There are languages (such as arabic) that are not written in the latin left-to-right fashion but exactly the other way round (i.e. you have to start reading at the right end of a line and end at the left). indeed! let's depend on

Re: [dev] SWK: The simple widget kit

2010-05-10 Thread pancake
On 05/10/10 10:31, Gregor Best wrote: On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 10:20:33AM +0200, pancake wrote: [...] * support for right-to-left scripts, Point this understand dont I. [...] There are languages (such as arabic) that are not written in the latin left-to-right fashion

Re: [dev] [surf] fix for running script.js

2010-05-10 Thread Sean Whitton
Hi, On Sun, May 09, 2010 at 07:27:25PM +0200, Troels Henriksen wrote: script.js will not be run unless the site you are visiting (or has visited in the past?) uses Javascript. This is bad. The attached patch makes surf run script.js in every newly created web view. Nice job - I see that

[dev] Disconnect signals when closing web view

2010-05-10 Thread Troels Henriksen
The attached patch fixes a crashing bug in surf. There's still plenty of crashing bugs left, though, so the difference is probably only academic at this point (and this feels ugly anyway - what's going on with GTK signal processing?) diff -r d9957625b700 surf.c --- a/surf.c Sun May 09 22:51:26

Re: [dev] about handling the event loop of wmii

2010-05-10 Thread Suraj Kurapati
On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 8:14 AM, Emmanuel Oga emmanuel...@gmail.com wrote: I'm doing some experiments on scripting wmii with the help of eventmachine. I mounted the wmii fs [...] Then, I came up with this: http://gist.github.com/390396 Why not talk directly to wmii via 9P instead of going