14 Nov 2004 id   » (Journeyer)

Window Maker

Just a side note. I'm wondering if this is a good thing to tie desktop notification system to NS. I think it is better to try to extend NET_WM et al. in WMaker to manage stuffs and I don't think it is too ideal to use only X communication. There are many applications outside GNUstep world that should rely on these desktop managements and informations. Though it could be good in short term and that may worth it. But I still think it is better to focus on other things like unify configuration and decorations, eg. replacing WINGs with GNUstep (although a basic layer for importing and exporting configurations should be enough and simply use X messaging channels that already provided by WMaker, those that WPrefs is using). Thus, using NSWindow to do window decoration will be expensive because it will allocate memory in the backend for each and most of the time most part of it isn't visible since covered by the app. A custom window class mixing both types of windows should solve the problem though.

Maliwan

I'm prototyping a collection factory class. When factories form up a network, a virtual factory will be created to manage each network's production. This virtual factory can be mixed into other network and act like a traditional factory. Another thing is Pipe class will be rewritten to base on target/selector model. Now I don't know if I can finish all these by this year.

Latest blog entries     Older blog entries

New Advogato Features

New HTML Parser: The long-awaited libxml2 based HTML parser code is live. It needs further work but already handles most markup better than the original parser.

Keep up with the latest Advogato features by reading the Advogato status blog.

If you're a C programmer with some spare time, take a look at the mod_virgule project page and help us with one of the tasks on the ToDo list!