Re: WindowMaker as GNUstep application

[Nicolas Roard]

Le 13 nov. 04, à 11:19, Enrico Sersale a écrit :

> www.gnustep.it/enrico/wmaker.tar.gz
>
> Only an experiment I've made today.
> The X events are got in the NSRunLoop of the applications and then 
> passed to the usual WindowMaker function. Nothing else, for the 
> moment.
>
> To install WMaker.app:
>
> 1) give a ./configure ; make in the base directory. This builds the 
> "usual" wmaker executable and some libraries needed by our app. (no 
> need to install but you can, this is only the wmaker tou're already 
> using)
> 2) cd into "gnustep"
> 3) ./configure
> 4) make install (don't use "debug=yes" because the *.c files doesn't 
> compile if DEBUG is defined)
> 5) edit your .xinitrc and change "exec wmaker" with "openapp WMaker".
> 6) think at something interesting to add to our window manager 
> application :-)
>
> I'm running WMaker.app since a few hours and I'm not noticing any 
> problem.

Looks very interesting !
Could be a nice platform for us -- send gnustep notifications when 
iconifying, etc., and leave the management of icons, dock, clip, to 
gnustep apps using thoses notifications... so it will be easy to write 
docks, panels, clips, etc.
... use -gui for drawing windows too... It would turn WMaker as a 
really perfect WM for GNUstep. Ideally the changes should go to the 
main WMaker if they agree..

--
Nicolas Roard
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