On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 10:35:26AM -0800, Suraj N. Kurapati wrote: > Anselm R. Garbe wrote: > > I think a 9P interface is too exeggerated for the > > purpose of a window manager. To keep the same flexibility but > > with a much simplier approach, you could think about defining a > > command interface which is read from stdin and special results > > written to stdout. > > The technology used to implement the remote-control interface will > change (standard pipe instead of 9P). However, will the same level > of remote-control functionality be kept? > > I don't want to have /less/ ability of manipulating clients, views, > etc. than before.
Indeed. And it's not just about control - it's also about reading state (not just "special results", whatever they are). For this purpose, the current system seems to work rather well. -- Andy Gimblett Computer Science Department University of Wales Swansea http://www.cs.swan.ac.uk/~csandy/
