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[arch-projects] Arch Linux Java Packaging
by Dusty Phillips 04 Jun '05

04 Jun '05

Hey folks, I'd like some peer review on this document before releasing it to the hungry masses to tear apart and unconstructively criticize... http://www.buchuki.com/misc/archjava.html Jason: Could you post a link to this on the Developer Mailing list? They can direct any questions to me or discuss it amoungst themselves first. ;-) For those who don't like to randomly click links in an e-mail without knowing what they are, this is a first draft of a document I wrote that defines a new standard for packaging java applications. I'm looking for feedback and potential problems so they can be adjust or changed within the document. Dusty

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[arch-projects] window manager thought
by Dusty Phillips 02 Jun '05

02 Jun '05

This is sorta for Phrakture -- are you still working on a modular window manager based on litestep, or did you give that project over? but its also for anybody who's interested -- I know quite a few people are looking for 'the perfect window manager' and believe that such a program does not yet exist. I know about virtual workspaces and multiple desktops. I also recall Enlightenment allowing desktops bigger than the screen, but IIRC, you could only see a full screen at a time. What I'm thinking of now, is that often I need two windows open that are, by necessity, bigger than half the width of the screen, and in which I need to refer between the two often -- a browser and a text editor are a good example when you're coding HTML (This headache came to me at work, where I do web design and have to use WindowsXP and the horrid default window manager that comes with it... hmm, maybe I better try litestep. Man that would be cool, shock the hell out of my boss... oh yeah, this is windows, don't worry about it... hehehe). The way I generally work is to have the two windows overlap as little as possible; one upper left and one lower right, with an overlapping corner near centre screen, for example. I switch between the two as needed, and it seems like 2/3 of the time, information I need to read from one window is obliterated by the window that I am currently working in. Ah, one way around this is to use the composite extension... But, I'm wondering if anybody knows about a Window manager that would allow me to have the two windows side by side, not overlapping, but with part of both windows off the side of the screen. As I move my mouse to the right of the screen, it automatically moves the whole viewport to the right so I can focus that window. This is basically an extension of an 'infinite window manager' idea I had a while ago in which windows would never overlap (sort of like a tiling window manager, but they wouldn't necessarily have to be tiles; they would be floating windows that could be dragged anywhere except over top of other windows.) and the screen acts as a "viewport" into the infinitely sized desktop. You can move the mouse over windows. Now I'm even thinking that you could have the mouse always centred in the screen, and moving the mouse would actually move the entire viewport... would be hard to get used to, but could be interesting. I'm always bad for giving way too much background information like that. My questions are, does anybody know if any window managers that implement some of these ideas exist, and/or, would anybody (ie: phrakture) like to create something that could do this (ie: as a litestep module)? Oh, and does anybody think it would be a good or bad idea? Dusty

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[arch-projects] mBira project
by cactus 02 Jun '05

02 Jun '05

Phrakture and I have been working on a binary repository aggregator, for personal user repositories. http://mbira.cactuswax.net Goals: 1) To help reduce the disjoint nature of personal repositories. 2) To make searching for binary packages easier. 3) Replace the PRIMAL utility 4) Potentially interface with he AUR when possible. It should be noted that mBira is not an attempt to replace the AUR. It was meant to fill the gap between the binary packages that make it into the AUR community repo, and those packages held only by users. Binary package information is culled from a personal repository, not uploaded to mbira. pkgbuilds are not dealt with in mbira, as that is what the AUR is for. Comments and questions are welcome, either here, or in the mbira forums. -- -------------------------- Bender: It was horrible! A nightmare! Fry: What happened? Bender: I dreamt I was in a place of 0's and 1's and all of a sudden... I saw a two *whimper* Fry: It's ok Bender, don't worry. There's no such thing as 2's.

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[arch-projects] to you vim users
by Aaron Griffin 01 Jun '05

01 Jun '05

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=12726 This util/plugin is *the* greatest thing to happen to me in a week or so (is that sad?) Check it out...

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[arch-projects] Opinion on a project of mine
by Martin Lefebvre 01 Jun '05

01 Jun '05

Hey guys Since this is a "projects" list, I decided to ask for eberybody's opinion regarding a project I would like to start... I have recently installed xmms2, and I am actually disappointed with the existing GUI clients, so I have decided to make my own... I am just not sure which language to use... I know python, a bit of C/C++, etc... Which one would you use for a project like that? (I can already hear someone screaming "JAVA!!!") :P -- Martin Lefebvre eMail: dadexter(a)gmail.com WWW: https://sigterm.homeunix.com Registered Linux User #349269 -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GAT dpu s:-- a- C+++ UL++++ P-- L++++ E--- W+++ N++ o-- K- w--- O- M-- V-- PS PE Y PGP-- t+++ 5- X R- tv++ b+ DI-- D+ G-- e h++ r++ y** ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------

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