Re: [wmii] Preparations for 3.5

On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 10:35:26AM -0800, Suraj N. Kurapati wrote:
> Anselm R. Garbe wrote:
> > I think a 9P interface is too exeggerated for the
> > purpose of a window manager. To keep the same flexibility but
> > with a much simplier approach, you could think about defining a
> > command interface which is read from stdin and special results
> > written to stdout.
>
> The technology used to implement the remote-control interface will
> change (standard pipe instead of 9P). However, will the same level
> of remote-control functionality be kept?
>
> I don't want to have /less/ ability of manipulating clients, views,
> etc. than before.

Indeed. And it's not just about control - it's also about reading
state (not just "special results", whatever they are). For this
purpose, the current system seems to work rather well.

-- 
Andy Gimblett
Computer Science Department
University of Wales Swansea
http://www.cs.swan.ac.uk/~csandy/