-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jeremy Maitin-Shepard wrote: > "Suraj N. Kurapati" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Hello, >> From what I've learned from regulars in IRC, wmii-4 development has >> lost steam. Some say this was bound to happen because garbeam left >> wmii-4 to pursue dwm. That's fine if you like dwm, but those of us >> still dependent on wmii-3.1 are presently screwed because there >> isn't a stable wmii-4 release yet. > > >> In case wmii-4 is indeed dead, here is how I would salvage it: > >> 1. discard the editable tag-bars stuff > > I've already produced a patch to do this. > >> 2. discard the "keep stacking mode for this column but show more >> than 1 client" stuff > > This hasn't been implemented anyway. > >> 3. add use of client ID numbers in the 9p file system, to avoid race >> conditions (as previously discussed in the list) > > I've already done this. Note however, that the current fs code has a > much worse race condition whereby invalid pointers may be referenced if > a file stays open after the client or view to which it relates exists. > I'm not entirely sure what the best way to fix this would be. The > easiest might be to use reference counts and a "dead" flag on clients > and views, and then just give an IO error if a filesystem operation is > attempted on a file related to a dead client or view. Better ways to > handle this problem don't necessarily fit well with a "filesystem > model".
I vote for the IO error approach. > >> 4. restore swapping, because we cannot use wmii-2 style tiling >> layout without it... heck! even dwm uses tiling layout ;-) > > Presumably this is very easy to do (several lines, which can be copied > back from wmii-3); I myself don't really see a use case, but it seems > that you have one. > >> 5. add ability to create empty views > > This is already possible with wmii-4, although an empty can only exist > while it is current. Yahoo! This is all so wonderful. :-) Where can I obtain your patches Jeremy... or is this all a part of wmii-4 now? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFE9eGXmV9O7RYnKMcRAkU+AKCZ0WgAcg+5mRVdSVV5qZBEq7x3EwCfSGXP BFwVQN++IorJeyjvj9hdYj0= =jIGd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ wmii@wmii.de mailing list http://wmii.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/wmii
