[RP] Re: ratpoison idea

[Mike Warren]

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Shawn Betts <address@hidden> writes:

> Hmm, this sounds a bit wanky. You're lucky GNUS didn't just pipe
> your mail to /dev/null with words like Enlightenment...

:)

> What would be gained from this? Is the window list that exists now
> somehow inadequate? I think it would be neat, but I'm having trouble
> understanding why it would be useful.

What I was thinking is that it would be good to have some visible
indication of what other windows are doing without visiting them
(i.e. maybe you're waiting for a long-running build to finish or
something).

W/o the live updating it would be pretty useless, I agree.

(Also, I'm thinking it might be better to just have a key-sequence pop
it up for a few seconds, like the C-t w window list)

I suppose, though, that one could use the screen-splitting and so
forth to gain this.

> Now I do think that being able to poll windows for graphical changes
> would be useful, like the monitor feature in screen.

I'm not aware of this screen feature.

> That I'd like. But that isn't trivial to implement (I would imagine
> anyway). Patches are welcome :).

I was more looking for "feasibility" feedback, 'cause I've not done
any X programming (I mean besides using widgit kits and suchlike).

If and when I get a patch, I'll obviously forward it...

Cheers,

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