Re: [wmii] Menu interface

Wmiimenu should die. I still have yet to find a single good use for it.

And your argument to make it part of wmiiwm is ridiculous, by that logic ls
would be too slow as a separated program and every shell should have
it built in. I bet your perf problems come from somewhere else, do
some profiling... or get a better os.

uriel

On 6/24/06, Kris Maglione <bsdaemon_AT_comcast.net> wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 10:22:47AM +0200, Anselm R. Garbe wrote:
> >On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 04:07:41AM -0400, Kris Maglione wrote:
> >> On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 09:57:53AM +0200, Anselm R. Garbe wrote:
> >> >We already had this. Please don't clutter the wm with such kind
> >> >of stuff. The current wmiimenu approach is much more simplier
> >> >and can be used without 9P as well. I don't want that change.
> >> >There is no single sane reason why this would be more
> >> >advantageous. You can access the 9P service to build up menu
> >> >lists, that's all we need.
> >> Like I said, I'll write it as a patch. The idea as it's been presented
> >> iterests me because the latency of starting a menu is unbearable at times.
> >> I've often enough wound up entering an entire tag name in vim before the
> >> menu has opened and I'm opened to exploring any available way to avoid it.
> >If there are any performance issues, we should investigate to
> >eliminate them. But for me the menu has been quite responsible
> >so far... It might be related that my /tmp is a tmpfs...
> I think that the problem is the time it takes to launch wmiimenu once it's
> left the cache, especially when there is significant disk io at the time.
> There's also the fact that wmiimenu can't grab keyboard focus until it's
> finished reading input. Recall that the performance is a problem when
> switching tags, so the proglist file isn't an issue. The only viable solution
> I see is to keep the wmiimenu program resident, and, ideally, the lists it's
> to present also. The easiest way I can think of to do this is to integrate it
> into the wm. It will be simple enough to maintain this as a patch given the
> new fs.c, so I don't see any harm in writing a test implementation. Anyway,
> it's of no immediate importance. Much work still has to be done before I'll
> even be ready to start work on it.
>
> --
> Kris Maglione
>
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