On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 04:39:48PM +0100, Uriel wrote: > This "calss" system seems way too complicated (I don't think I even > understand it) > > All that is needed is a single file that contains one rule per line: > /pattern/ -> tag list > > Inside /pattern/ you could have either regexps or shell-style globing. Only > think that should be taken care is that it should be possible to match other > attributes than "class:instance".
I like your idea, except that I hope you don't mean to have such file in wmii's virtual filesystem, but define that stuff in wmiirc instead and having an event whenever a new window appears, that you can match your rules with awk from wmiirc and writing the specific tags to /clients/<id>/tags. This would allow easy xprops integration. The event might only provide the window id which can be used as argument for xprop, ie: xprop -id <id> (that is no big deal and can be easily supplied as event argument). Instead of using the global array indexes as directory names in /clients/ we could use the window id instead, ie /clients/0x600020/... (actually it is only important to have the indexes in /ws namespace, but knowing the wmii indexes in /clients is pretty pointless). Assumed you receive some event (MC = manage client) like MC 0x600020 in wmiirc you could run xprops -id 0x600020, match whatever you like and do xwrite /clients/0x600020/tags +new -web for example. This would remove all this complexity from wmii and prevent us inventing the wheel of a matching language and allow the user much flexibility (we only have to take care about tags). > /Gimp:*/ -> graphics > /Gecko:*/ -> +web Those should be checked against WM_CLASS, ie WM_CLASS(STRING) = "xterm", "XTerm" (output for xterm) > Anyway, this is just a rough idea, probably will need many iterations > of polishing, we should probably start with the simplest form of > /foo:bar*/ -> tag list > (without tag-qualifiers) and then extend the language as we find need > more fine grained expressions. I'd like to get rid of the /def/class handling within the WM, we could safe a lot of code without it (approx. 200 lines). Regards, -- Anselm R. Garbe ><>< www.ebrag.de ><>< GPG key: 0D73F361 _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://wmii.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/wmii
