Re: [wmii] snap: 20060309

You obviously can't read, the differences between the mechanism I
proposed and awk, it is like comparing a fly with a 747 and claiming
that a fly requires many tons of steel.

Of course you demonstrate considerable ignorance about awk, as pattern
matching is just a small part of awk, and even then, awk is just a few
thousand lines of code. If you need more than one hundred lines of
code to split a string and match with basic globing operations, you
are certainly delusional.

uriel

On 3/9/06, Anselm R. Garbe <garbeam_AT_wmii.de> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 07:58:54PM +0100, Uriel wrote:
> > The rules file should be inside wmii, for the same reason the plumber
> > rules are inside the plumber: it is simpler and cleaner. They specify
>
> You completely miss the point that the plumber is used by
> various applications/9P servers following the philosophy doing
> one job and doing it well. wmii is not the plumber, like acme is
> not the plumber, but you can easily combine both with the
> plumber.
>
> > the default set of tags, and the one that initializes the tags is the
> > wm, so the information about how to initialize tags should be stored
> > and maintained by the wm because it is the one that knows best the
> > context of the creation of the window.
>
> There is no difference, if the wm initializes the tags of a
> window after receiving a response to some event OR if it matches
> some rules with some YAREL to initialize some tags. In both
> cases the decision has been supplied by the user (wmiirc) and
> not guessed by the WM.
>
> > Of course once more you are blinded by your total incapability to
> > think in more than one single straight line at a time, and assume that
> > just because the wm sets the default tags like that, it should not
> > allow external programs to set the
> > tags, which obviously is a totally senseless conclusion.
>
> Sorry, I never told something like that.
>
> > If you don't learn to step back, and to see how the small pieces fit
> > into the big picture, and how all the different design factors
> > interact; and instead keep dogmatically following totally arbitrary
> > and senseless metrics to measure how things should be done, we are
>
> Even if you know, that you're wrong you insist your proposal
> like a an only-child.
>
> > hopeless. Programming is an art, not an exact science, and it requires
> > a sense of aesthetics, style and perspective; and like ken said, one
> > has to see how the small pieces fit into the big structures.
>
> Yes, exactly. And you propose doing big structures instead of
> small pieces which work together in a simple way. Inventing YAREL
> to write some tags to some structs is really insane.
>
> > Now go ahead and ignore everything I say and build your extremely
> > complex system to push tag initialization logic into external
> > programs, that then call xprop, parse xprop output, then write to the
> > tag file, and then say they are done figuring out what tags should be
> > selected, etc. Great idea, push all the tedious work to the user, to
> > save a handful of hypothetical lines of code. Blah, if you only could
> > read The Practice of Programming, which has a whole chapter dedicated
> > to the power of small specialized languages.
>
> A handful? You mean awk is a handful of lines?
>
> > After taking a look at xprop, I am in awe as to what sort of perverted
> > mind conceived such abomination, and how anyone could ever use a
> > system as retarded as X; but still, I can't see how we could not just
> > pick a handful of attributes (most of which we probably are needed by
> > wmii internally anyway) and export those as strings, I certainly see
> > no sense in allowing to set any of them, but if we are going to fetch
> > them anyway, why not provide a sane interface to them rather than the
> > xprop insanity.
>
> Simply because the wm normally only cares for WM_NAME,
> WM_PROTOCOLS and WM_HINTS. And these attributes are exported in
> the fs. WM_CLASS is somewhat uninteresting for most purposes.
> But for tagging they might be most useful compared to all others.
>
> And don't forget, it was not me who proposed using xprop, it was
> you. Weak memory recently?
>
> > I never have seen any need for /def/tag, and still think it should not exist.
>
> Uh, that shows that you never think very deep. Which tag should a
> window get if no ws exists yet, no other window existed, no wmiirc
> already finished its job?
>
> You ever started wmii if there are existing windows?
>
> Regards,
> --
> Anselm R. Garbe ><>< www.ebrag.de ><>< GPG key: 0D73F361
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