On Sat, 23 May 2009 14:19:40 -0400 Kris Maglione <maglion...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Kris, thanks for your reply. > On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 08:06:00PM +0200, Dieter Plaetinck wrote: > >I have only spent little time with vimperator, but unless I'm missing > >something vimperators idea is adding a vim-like interface to firefox > >(and other mozilla software). AFAIK it does not change that > >storage of your bookmarks, history etc is handled internally in > >firefox, and that you end up with tens of files in your ~, many of > >which are binary. > > No, it doesn't. I'd be in favor of it, but it would require > switching over to xulrunner and breaking compatibility with > other extensions (some of which are too useful to give up). did you mean switching away from xulrunner? firefox (and hence vimperator) use xulrunner, no? May I ask which FF extensions you like so much? > > >The idea behind uzbl is more about implementing the unix philosophy: > >using external programs/scripts to take care of non-core-browser > >aspects (think management of bookmarks and such), and using simple > >plaintext based storage for your settings and data. > > I've actually moved all Vimperator-specific storage to > plain-text files in the past months. Firefox-specific storage > (history, bookmarks, etc.) are still stored in sqlite, and > there's not much we can do about it. Plus, there's all sorts of > RDF crap I'd like to lose, but, again... > > >We may have (more or less) the keybinding ideas in common with > >vimperator, but that's where it stops. (unless I'm mistaken about > >what vimperator does). > > You probably are. Please enlighten me then :) What does vimperator do more then providing a vimlike interface? > > >- multiple instance management (like tabs, but better. will use a > > script that uses a patched dmenu), for those who are not satisfied > > with the abilities of their WM. > > We talked about this on Vimperator list. I'd prefer wmii to > manage my instances and to use wimenu for the command line. I > suggested a separate wrapper program to manage the instances for > people who aren't satisfied with their WMs. > did you mean wmii9menu ? I'm also a wmii user but I have no wimenu on my system. I prefer dmenu since you can control it with the keyboard. (in fact I prefer dmenu-vertical, a patched version from someone on the arch forums. screenie: (the top menu) http://www.uzbl.org/img/screenshot-2.png) Ideally, I think the WM should handle it all, but i have some ideas which will use dmenu-vertical for instances management and make use of some extra application-specific properties. see http://github.com/Dieterbe/uzbl/blob/6b3e00a6273fd812356a98fa56c7b523ad652ebb/docs/multiple-instances-management for details). In your other mail you specifically mentioned you are interested in integration with wmii. Well, me too :) I would like to hear your ideas. Dieter.
