Re: Window manager for GNUStep

[Kevin Ingwersen]

I am sticking to FLTK for creating windows. It wraps the pure native window 
manager into a cross platform API o.o. Maybe take a look!~
Am Mi. Feb. 19 2014 10:28:57 schrieb David Chisnall:

> On 18 Feb 2014, at 22:06, Germán Arias <germanandre@gmx.es> wrote:
> 
>> On 2014-02-18 13:31:00 -0600 carlos antonio neira bustos 
>> <cneirabustos@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi All,
>>> 
>>> I'm trying to build a gnustep desktop, window maker is the only window
>>> manager that is recommended to use, I also read about a window manager
>>> called backbone but I'dont know if that is still in active development.
>>> Which are the main tasks to code to make a window manager aware of gnustep
>>> applications ?.
>>> 
>> 
>> What think about use Guile-WM?
>> 
>> http://www.markwitmer.com/guile-xcb/guile-wm.html
>> 
>> I've been thinking that this is a good basis to make a window manager for 
>> GNUstep.
> 
> If you're interested, the Services/Private/ProjectManager directory in the 
> Étoilé repo has the start of an XCB-based window manager that I was working 
> on.  I got sidetracked by other projects in the meantime.  Christopher 
> Armstrong did some code cleanups.  More patches would be welcome.
> 
> It contains a fairly lightweight set of XCB wrappers (in the XCBKit 
> subdirectory) and then some higher-level code that uses them. It does 
> compositing and window movement, but very little else.  It intentionally 
> doesn't do window decoration, as the intention was to delegate a lot of this 
> to the menu server, so windows would have resize handles when they are active 
> (just as objects in a typical DTP-style UI do), but not at other times and 
> the window title and close/minimise/zoom buttons would be provided in the 
> menu bar.  
> 
> David
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- Sent from my Difference Engine
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