[Conky-development] Re: Conky roadmap

[Johannes W. <jw...@tk...>]

One more:


On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 10:47:33 +0200, Johannes Winkelmann wrote:
[...]
> and some type identifier to define whether how a node wants to be
> represented (text, bar, graph); think:
> 
> class Renderer
> {
> public:
>     enum Render::Type { TYPE_TEXT, TYPE_LINE, TYPE_BAR, TYPE_GRAPH };
>     ...
> };

> If course, for things other that TYPE_TEXT, returning the "string
> value()" has some disadantages, since the node needs to convert it, and
> the renderer would have to reparse it later on (think:
> "line:x1,y1,x2,y2").
Unless we're using SVG there :-). 
Pro: easy to pass to cairo. 
Contra: if we'd like a console client, it would have to parse SVG as
well (not sure if that's really an argument, but when running the
conky-daemon on a server, it might be nice to actually test it quickly).

Johannes
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