Re: What I want to do / code

Eric S Fraga <e.fraga-hclig2XLE9Zaa/[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.window-managers.ratpoison.devel
Organization CPSE, Department of Chemical Engineering, University College London (UCL)
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Saturday, 26 Apr 2014 at 19:51, Jeff Abrahamson wrote:
> This email is a
> statement of what I am thinking I'd like to do.  It's a bit long, but if
> you're interested in ratpoison development, I would very much appreciate
> your feedback.  

Okay!  I don't have an opinion on many of the items you listed except
for the following:

> *1.  Frame affinity.*  Windows want to stay with the frame.  Closing a

I would love to have this implemented.  It's especially useful for
multihead and wide screen set ups.

> *3.  Workspace improvements.*  The current rpws seems broken with multiple
> heads.  It also seems slow.  Where other window managers even animate a

Proper multihead support would be great.  At present, only one monitor
changes display when switching workspaces.  This gets confusing wuite
quickly. 

> *9.  Add scripts to contrib* for wifi connection, removable media
> mounting/unmounting, and so forth.  

wicd-curses, usbmount, acpi, ...? all there and easily accessible from
an xterm or equicalent.  I would suggest that documentation is more
important here than actual changes to RP?

thanks,
eric

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