Re: [viewglob-general] Viewglob is great!

[Stephen B. <sj...@co...>]

Hi chesss,

> Real gem of an application!! thanks a lot.
> The way I discovered this was by requesting such a thing on another =20
> mailing list. Here is what I had in mind initially : =20
> http://h1.ripway.com/chesss/dirlist.png .
> pretty close ;)
> Will be posting about this app everywhere!

Thanks!

> featuer request:
> 1. instant update on tab switch in tabbed consoles(mrxvt/konsole) , maybe=
 =20
> use title of a window to detect this?

Yeah, this is an annoying limitation of the current Viewglob.  Currently
vgd keeps a list of the viewglob'd terminal windows and polls the the X
display periodically to figure out which one is active.  Since the
active window doesn't change when you switch tabs, Viewglob doesn't
update until it receives input.

The only way I can see to semi-reliably determine the active tab based
on title would be to try to control the title - but this is too much of
a usage restriction, I think.  Also, it may not work very well if
another program tries to set its own title.

Tabbed terminals are here to stay, so I definitely agree I need to come
up with a work around in order to keep Viewglob useful.

> Anyways some ideas for you (not feature requests, but ideas) :
> 1. tree view: like the above pic
> 2. programmable area. Say I could assign  an area to show hitory 1 | less=
 =20
> after every command(again like the above pic)
> 3. keep it nice and light(the way it is)

The tree view is a good idea, and certainly doable.  I'll add it to my
list of things to try when I find the time and initiative. :-)

Regards,
Stephen