Re: Sawfish roadmap (?)

John uses rep for several scripting purposes, but uses MacOS' WM, not 
Sawfish anymore.

Regards,
Chris

Am 14.03.2013 13:59, schrieb Richard:
> - The ability to mark certain frame parts as excluded/hidden when
> calculating group/yank/pack.
> - Documentation (or more easily available documentation) on the supplied
> scripts. There are loads of .jl files in the source tree which might
> provide exactly the solution to something that I want to do; but I have
> no idea what the scripts do or when/how they should be used.
> - I *hate* 'info'. Documentation in HTML would be great.
> - The option to have iconified windows displayed as an icon. I did do
> some experimentation on faking this using shade - but I hit a few snags.
>
> There was some discussion a few months ago on re-writing this in another
> language (something called 'racket' was mentioned at the time). I agree
> that the beauty of sawfish is that it is written in 'a lisp language'
> and that rep appears to be used nowhere else. I have far too little
> knowledge of the wider lisp world to recommend which language; but
> moving to something more widely used might help attract users ( and
> maintainers?).
>
> On a related note - does anyone know if the great Mr. Harper still uses
> sawfish and whether he has used (or knows of) rep in any other projects?
>
> R.
>
>     ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>     *From:* Vladimir Kravets <[email protected]>
>     *To:* [email protected]
>     *Sent:* Thursday, 14 March 2013, 12:30
>     *Subject:* [Sawfish] Sawfish roadmap (?)
>
>     Hi guys,
>
>     I belive that this project should be alive. As I know by now we try
>     to find maintainer for it.
>
>     But I want to ask you guys what we expect from Sawfish in future
>     versions?
>
>     There are my list =)
>     1. native support of window opacity (e.g. have new attribute of
>     window "opacity" or "alpha")
>     2. More modern themes
>
>
>     Any suggestions from you?
>
>     Thanks,
>     Vladimir
>
>     P.S: I up this thread to prepare the list of expectation for people
>     who are interesting in the future of the SawFish project.
>      From my point of view I'm very proud that such project exists and I
>     don't understanding why we see small activity in it =(((
>
>


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