Re: [STUMP] Overriding automatic resizing?

[Raffael Mancini]

At Sun, 17 Aug 2008 13:11:55 +0300,
Joeli Hokkanen <address@hidden> wrote:
> Also, I couldn't find any information if Xft is supported on StumpWM's
> mode-line, the pop-ups and such. I also tried to give some Xft fonts to the
> set-font function, but it didn't seem to work. So is this possible? If yes,
> how?

Unfortunately clx does not support smoothed/antialiased fonts. I am
very interested in this feature though and would like to reimplement
the mode-line to have it accept a list as data to be displayed as
Shawn pointed out. This could make it more programmable. We could also
add a feature that would transform a string into this list format to
make it easier for humans to specify it.

I would also like to use a more abstract library then clx that would
enable us to easily add pixmaps, animations and of course smoothed
fonts. There is vecto, cl-cairo2 and other libraries that could maybe
help. The problem is that they don't have interfaces to clx
data structures.

All in all this is a long term project of mine and will definitely not
be available soon as I am still a lisp noob and currently don't have
too much time.

If someone else wants to join me I'd be glad. I guess we would first
have to analyze the current mode-line and decide for a nice and clean
design for the new one. I guess we can reuse a lot of code from
mode-line so it may be more of evolved version then a rewrite.

Greetings,
Raffael