Re: [dwm] on-the-fly tags creation and deletion

On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 12:25:38PM +0200, Julian Romero wrote:
> Yeah. Never pretended to go main. But without a run-time communication
> mechanism dwm is quite static (for my needs, I mean) There should be a
> way to talk with it, simple and small, without reaching wmii
> complexity. Stdin? Piped files? Telnet? ...?
>
> Don't take it very seriously, but an array of pipes will do the trick
> typedef struct {
> const char *file;
> void (*func)(Arg *arg);
> } Pipe;
>
> Pipe pipeline[] = {
> { "-", modstatus},
> }
>
> Main dwm may define and use only the status pipe while some other user can
> have
> Pipe pipeline[] = {
> { "-", modstatus},
> {"~/.dwm/tagpipe, modtags},
> {"~/.dwm/rulepipe, modrules},
> }
>
> Main dwm should provide the basic loop to open every pipe and call the
> associated function when there is something to read.

NO, that will end a bunch of complexity. I don't see the need for
main distribution. dwm is customized by editing its source code.
 
Regards,

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