Well, just to note, wmii+ixp are not hosted on suckless anymore. There is still the wmii page[0] and archives on the downloads page[1]. The new home is on google-code[2] and maybe you can find some answers on the bugtracker[3]. There is also #wmii on oftc irc, afaik.
[0]: http://wmii.suckless.org/ [1]: http://dl.suckless.org/wmii/ [2]: https://code.google.com/p/wmii/ [3]: https://code.google.com/p/wmii/issues/list On 21 September 2012 15:49, Sanel Zukan <san...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 9:33 PM, hiro <23h...@gmail.com> wrote: > > why not a cloud service? > > The communication will be done between desktop components, so using > cloud here is a bit questionable :) But thanks for proposal. > > On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 9:50 PM, Ivan Kanakarakis > <ivan.ka...@gmail.com> wrote: > > you maybe interested in unixbus > > This project looks quite interesting; thanks for suggestion. However, > it heavily relies on inotify, which makes it unsuitable for BSDs, > Solaris and other unix-es. Maybe inotify support can be made optional, > which I will look at. > > On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 10:17 PM, Anselm R Garbe <garb...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Also, related to libixp: I noticed threading support, but can it be > >> made to work asynchronously, e.g. to be integrated with GUI main loop? > > > > It would be possible, but the performance will suffer... > > ... > > Which libixp version are you referring to? > > Latest I found on suckless.org, 0.5. > > I'm working on light desktop environment (http://edeproject.org) which > is powered by FLTK toolkit. Among other reasons I'm ditching DBus > (actually making it optional) is how pthreads are not available on > stock Minix, but as addon library that will pull tons of dependencies. > > The whole desktop is made asynchronous, and threading is used only on > single place, when xmlrpc-c library is used to send bug reports (which > is optional feature). Now you see why I'm trying to avoid threading as > possible. > > FLTK provides few handy functions to monitor descriptors without > blocking UI and I was thinking how ixp_serverloop() can be updated to > use them. But I'm not sure about the rest of library, like are there leaks, > dropped data, possibility to crash server with malformed content and etc. > > Or you have maybe different proposal? > > Thanks. > Sanel > > -- *Ivan c00kiemon5ter V Kanakarakis* >:3
