[E-devel] Engage development

[Gen Z. <ge...@us...>]

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Hi all. To relax, I've decided that coding up engage would be a refreshing=
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change from exam revision. Looking at the (much) changed code since I last=
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saw it, there's a couple of things that I would like to implement. One is=20
better handling of windows opening and closing, the other is better icon=20
management. In particular, I would like it to be freedesktop.org compliant,=
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so that engage on its own can be used in any environment, GNOME, KDE or oth=
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compliant desktops. As xcomputerman says on the homepage, engage has=20
potential to really bring gui writer over to DR17. So that's my dollars at=
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two cents worth.

My first goal is to code a replacement for the repeated od_sync_clients cal=
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The current form is neither efficient nor extremely pleasing to the eye --=
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we've got an average delay of half a second, an unacceptable latency. Since=
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the last time I worked on the code, I've gotten to know X and ecore a lot=20
better, especially the extensible nature of both. I'd like to have the wind=
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management (wm.c) side moved to an event driven way, in which we monitor=20
top-level window creation/mapping and destruction/unmapping update the icon=
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as things happen. Also, and this is probably the harder bit, I'd like to=20
comply with fd.o with respect to startup notification messages. However, in=
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the current state, there are a few things that need to be completed in ecor=
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Specifically, the boilerplate relating to ECORE_X_EVENT_CLIENT_MESSAGE. I=20
think I could probably modify things myself, but I'm a little wary of=20
touching the specifics inside ecore... (As a side note, ecore_x currently=20
just drops all x events that does not map cleanly onto one of the handlers;=
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maybe there should be a default x event that is raised.)

It's nice to see that I'm not just doing these little hacks for myself... :=
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and thanks to all who have brought engage to where it is now!

Genneth
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