Re: Tiling features in Mutter

2011-03-17 Thread Oliver Mangold
On 17.03.2011 16:23, Jeffery Olson wrote: Encapsulation, low coupling and seperation-of-concerns. These are all valuable patterns that we can leverage here. Okay, you have a point here. This is certainly the best one can do under dynamic typing. I'm not sure if it is relevant for the

Re: Tiling features in Mutter

2011-03-17 Thread Tim Cuthbertson
I'm not seeing owen's side of this conversation (specifically this first quoted part, I never received. this is also the first message I've seen discussing static typing vs dynamic typing). is it supposed to be between the two of you or on the mailing list? On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 4:07 AM, Oliver

Re: Tiling features in Mutter

2011-03-17 Thread Oliver Mangold
On 17.03.2011 22:04, Tim Cuthbertson wrote: I'm not seeing owen's side of this conversation (specifically this first quoted part, I never received. this is also the first message I've seen discussing static typing vs dynamic typing). is it supposed to be between the two of you or on the mailing

Re: Tiling features in Mutter

2011-03-17 Thread Tim Cuthbertson
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 8:04 AM, Tim Cuthbertson t...@gfxmonk.net wrote: I'm not seeing owen's side of this conversation (specifically this first quoted part, I never received. this is also the first message I've seen discussing static typing vs dynamic typing). is it supposed to be between

Re: Tiling features in Mutter

2011-03-15 Thread Oliver Mangold
Message: 2 Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 13:11:55 +1100 From: Tim Cuthbertsont...@gfxmonk.net To: Oliver Mangoldo.mang...@googlemail.com Cc: gnome-shell-list@gnome.org Subject: Re: Tiling features in Mutter Message-ID: I've started to work on these features in gnome-shell itself (using javascript

Re: Tiling features in Mutter

2011-03-15 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 01:11:55PM +1100, Tim Cuthbertson wrote: I've started to work on these features in gnome-shell itself (using javascript). but haven't had much time for it. I'm not convinced doing it in the shell is a great idea, as a lot of the functionality is not yet exposed to

Re: Tiling features in Mutter

2011-03-15 Thread Tim Cuthbertson
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 9:41 PM, Olav Vitters o...@vitters.nl wrote: On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 01:11:55PM +1100, Tim Cuthbertson wrote: I've started to work on these features in gnome-shell itself (using javascript). but haven't had much time for it. I'm not convinced doing it in the shell is a

Re: Tiling features in Mutter

2011-03-15 Thread Oliver Mangold
On 15.03.2011 11:41, Olav Vitters wrote: No idea if feasible, but maybe work on exposing it in javascript, so the tiling features can live in an extension? Then everyone wanting to use tiling could have it easily (no need to compile / differ from what is in the distro) Note: not a dev, no idea

Re: Tiling features in Mutter

2011-03-15 Thread Oliver Mangold
On 15.03.2011 12:50, Tim Cuthbertson wrote: That's true - it should be a lot easier to distribute as a javascript extension. Oliver, have you asked the mutter developers whether they'd be open to merging tiling features? Can anyone on this list answer that? Not explicitly, but I started this

Re: Tiling features in Mutter

2011-03-15 Thread Owen Taylor
On Tue, 2011-03-15 at 13:05 +0100, Oliver Mangold wrote: On 15.03.2011 12:50, Tim Cuthbertson wrote: That's true - it should be a lot easier to distribute as a javascript extension. Oliver, have you asked the mutter developers whether they'd be open to merging tiling features? Can anyone on

Re: Tiling features in Mutter

2011-03-14 Thread Tim Cuthbertson
post to gnome-love on tiling features in mutter for notice. Best, Oliver Original Message Subject: Re: [gnome-love] Tiling features in Mutter Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 16:41:17 +0100 From: Olav Vitters o...@vitters.nl o...@vitters.nl To: Oliver Mangold o.mang

Re: Tiling features in Mutter

2011-03-14 Thread Jasper St. Pierre
for it, and when I got back to it, my session had expired, forcing me to wait another 4-5 minutes. I still haven't seen your code. On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 11:56 AM, Oliver Mangold o.mang...@googlemail.comwrote: Hi, as suggested, below a copy of my post to gnome-love on tiling features in mutter

Fwd: Tiling features in Mutter

2011-03-13 Thread Oliver Mangold
Hi, as suggested, below a copy of my post to gnome-love on tiling features in mutter for notice. Best, Oliver Original Message Subject:Re: [gnome-love] Tiling features in Mutter Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 16:41:17 +0100 From: Olav Vitters o...@vitters.nl