On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 5:38 PM, yy <yiyu....@gmail.com> wrote: > 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.
Yes! I love all this ideas! > 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. I completely agree. Suckless needs a cohesive goal, and creating the components of a simple, clean and elegant development environment that is true to the original Unix principles is a good such goal. uriel > > -- > - yiyus || JGL . 4l77.com > >
