Michael Corrieri <mc_at_imagine-software.com> writes:
> Why not just socket fvwm ala CORBA, and let anyone use whatever (oo)
> language they want?
>
> You could just publish the interfaces (if you do it right, CORBA will
> publish the interfaces for you, we just pass out the ORBs).
I'd like to be able to kill windows by combining any of the info FvwmIdent
supplies and any other external info like core size or whatever bites me
tomorrow, with just some lines of any interpreted language, but WITHOUT
writing an own module in C.
1) Fvwm2's internal language cannot do everything.
2) An external language still cannot access fvwm2's internal information.
ad 1) At least chuck can and should not include a full language into FVWM.
At least as long as the V in Fvwm stand for "Versatile" and the F
for "still useable" :-)
ad 2) I'm talking about window position, window flags, window stacking
order & the like.
Fvwm already has pretty much internal data, but it's less effort
and more versatile to let e.g. python access & manipulate the
window data structure than to reproduce all possibilities of
python.
when .fvwmpipe came up, I thought:
why not just let fvwm read stdin / write stdout in a _really_ _basic_ maybe
just _machine_readable_ language and feed that language interpreter from
any subtle frontend.
hmm, I didn't get to think further ....
at least you can send fvwm some commands via FvwmPipe. It'd be nicer, if
you also got some info from fvwm (e.g: which windows exist, which one has
focus), before you do something to them.
anyway:
Either there's a full language in fvwm2, or a possibility to export fvwm2's
native (!) functions & datastructures (!!) to any unix program.
Anything inbetween is orders of magnitude less useable.
I vote for elaborating on 2) rather than 1)
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Received on Mon May 04 1998 - 16:14:22 BST