Alan McKinnon wrote: > You are assuming that smaller WMs don't need IPC. I believe that assumption > to > be false. If my belief is true, then your argument falls flat.
Guess what, there are even very small WMs that have an IPC, and a very clear/portable/network-agnostic one: wmii uses 9P. > By way of example: printing. By no stretch of the imagination can printing be > considered to be a niche function. How will an arbitrary app find your > printers? There are multiple print server around. So, you could: lpr ? If it's interface is not enough anymore, invent a new one. Perhaps as a filesystem. 9P makes this *very* easy. > Multimedia buttons. One of the most confounding things on modern hardware are > multimedia buttons. Volume is easy - make it adjust the sound server. man 1 plumb cu -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ cellphone: +49 174 7066481 email: i...@metux.de skype: nekrad666 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Embedded-Linux / Portierung / Opensource-QM / Verteilte Systeme ----------------------------------------------------------------------
