I'm still a student (PhD student, but that's fine for Google), so I will probably apply to participate as a student.
Since Go was released I have been playing with it. Is there any interest in the Go port of dwm? This would probably include the improvement of the xgb go package (which I don't know if it is fine, since Google's projects like Go cannot take part in GSoC). Other part of the project could be writing a widget toolkit, at least for the status bar and, eventually, dmenu, but could include more widgets to be a full toolkit (as Kurt suggested), or use the Go draw pkg (which should be inproved too). I have some vague ideas about a layout interface which could be shared between dwm and the widget toolkit. I'm also interesting in porting dio to Go, if you think that would make a nice project or could be included with the dwm port. That said... I think what Google meant about lack of focus is that writing software that sucks less is what everybody is trying, but not a concrete objective. You could call dwm/dmenu/surf and the rest of suckless projects part of a "desktop environment" (I know, I also hate that name) or, even better, a "development environment" (the first one not including an editor!). IOW, I think a goal clearer than "suckless software" is needed. -- - yiyus || JGL . 4l77.com
