Re: Matchbox 0.5rc1

To: Matthew Allum <[email protected]>
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Subject: Re: [Matchbox] Matchbox 0.5rc1 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 31 Mar 2003 12:22:33 +0100."
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> Agreed, Id even go as far as saying they look small on a 640x480
> display. But fear not, Im working on implemeneting scaling in the
> panel apps to fix this kind of problem, especially with PDA's now
> emerging with 640x480 displays.

Yay! And looks like you already did the rest of my wishlist in 0.5.
Though I have come up with a new wishlist item: the ability to
programatically launch/pop-to-front a monolaunch. Perhaps an option that
would tell it to write a pid file, and the have kill -HUP or -USR1 or
something on the pid simulate a button push.

This is good if you want bootup/login/whatever to come up with an app
already running, but you want a click on it's button to pop it to front
again instead of staring a second copy.


BTW, I started working on NetBSD package for 0.5.  Looks like some of
the build issues I ran into with 0.4 are already fixed.  One of the
remaining issues is that NetBSD doesn't have strndup.  After
investigating this function, I consider this a good thing, as nobody
even among the Linux people can seem to agree on what the semantics
are...  does it:

	allocate N and strncpy?
	allocate N and strlcpy?
	allocate N+1 and strncpy or memcpy and add \0?
	allocate as much as needed, but at most n and strncpy?
	allocate as much as needed, but at most n and strlcpy?
	allocate as much as needed, but at most n+1 and add \0?
	
and my favorite:

	have comments describing one of the variants above, but
	code that tries to implement another, but with bugs.

(It's left as an excersize to the reader to google around and see who
implements what variant -- I count versions implementing at least 3 of
the above.)

My suggestion is to figure out what semantics you actually need, write a
new function with a new name that implements them, and use that. strndup
should be avoided until people can agree on what the hell it actually
does, IMHO :-)