On Thu, Sep 08, 2011 at 21:00:31 +0200, Dieter Plaetinck wrote:
> Hi,
> in an attempt to get a dmenu that includes all features I want, I've been
> trying to combine patches from various sources to various versions of dmenu.
> This has proven to be a pain, as patches conflict with each other (or
> sometimes apply, but still break functionality) and/or loose compatibility
> with newer upstream releases.
> Interestingly, all of the features I want actually already have corresponding
> patches, it's just integrating everything that's so hard.
> Myself, I'm a bad C coder so I hope there are some dmenu hackers out there
> that share the same goal and can help out.
>
> Here's my list of features:
> * horizontal mode (i.e. dmenu as we know it)
> * vertical mode, with flag for how many lines long the menu can be
> * string matching (dmenu as we know it) and token matching (aka xmms-like and
> awesomebar-like)
> * toggle flag for stable sort: (should work with all matching modes)
> * stable: order matched results like they are ordered in the input
> * unstable: order by "best match" (match at beginning is better than
> in the middle)
> * case sensitivity toggle
> * custom colors
> * cursor and "unix shortcuts" (ctrl-e, ctrl-a, ctrl-w, ..)
> * traversing results list (going up and down) with arrow up/down and alt+j
> and alt+k
> * multi select
> * unicode support
> * paste support (from either primary selection with shift-insert and
> clipboard, maybe with ctrl-V)
Weren't you the archlinux guy, using the distro that yells KISS all over
the place? Maybe you should add all these features in the form of
lightweight shared objects, that can be loaded with dlopen, in order to
make it suck magnitudes less.
Moritz
