WTF is this 'libdraw' thing? So are you guys not only duplicating existing functionality implemented by p9p, but you are also confusingly using the same names?
libdraw should be: http://man.cat-v.org/p9p/3/draw and that is what should be used as a portable drawing backend, and if more functionality is needed, patches should be submitted to Russ. uriel On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 6:44 PM, pancake <panc...@youterm.com> wrote: > Recently I've been writing the X11 backend of swk, the suckless widget kit. > > After some lines of code I noticed that i was redoing stuff already done by > other projects and also in libdraw.. So I started mixing raw X code with > libdraw.. > > Actually I'm hacking in 'st' in order to add clipboard and selection > support, and > certainly... the way to get/set strings in clipboard in X really sucks, and > I don't > want to repeat it.. > > So, the proposal here is to join efforts between st, swk, sselp, dwm and > others > to use and enhace libdraw in order to reduce repeated code in all the > suckless > projects. > > I also liked to know if the libdraw author is open to contributions (can I > commit > it directly?). > > I would like to have functions in libdraw to work with clipboard, create > window > (already done in dc_window in swk) and other stuff. > > The next step would probably think in making different backends to libdraw > instead of dupping it in swk. > > Any feedback for this proposal? :) > > --pancake > >
