On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 12:29 AM, Jeff Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Dec 1, 2008, at 4:54 AM, Jean-Philippe Bernardy wrote: > >> I just uploaded Yi 0.5.2 to Hackage. > > Yay! This is good. :) > >> Plans now include: dropping ghc 6.8 support and move on to using >> base 4; >> Change the representation of buffers; >> Release and use the new version of vty; >> many other things -- ideas welcome :) > > > A few things are on my mind, although they're pretty general and not > very specific to the next release: > > * Support all the UIs more equally. E.g., vty supports tabbing and > split windows; Cocoa supports drag/drop, I think; gtk supports > something about cabal projects (never quite understood what this did, > never used it successfully, but there's some pane on the left side). > There's probably other things I'm missing. We should at least try to > get tabbing in all UIs.
I feel this is mostly because low-level UI libraries are lacking in haskell. It is very difficult to implement all functionality consistently! At the moment I'd say "vty" is the only platform that is properly supported. (Thanks Corey!) Unfortunately, xterm does not implement its own standard so it is quite difficult to integrate nicely with X. Indeed, clipboard support is disabled by default (see corresponding issue). If somebody has some influence to get this implemented in Konsole, gnome-terminal, xterm, etc. Gustav has done some awesome work on the Cocoa frontend, however he's been fighting all along with HOC. I'd say if HOC was more mature, Cocoa would be the best UI by now. Gtk bindings are OK, but gtk itself is quite unfriendly to custom text buffers. Cheers, JP. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Yi development mailing list yi-devel@googlegroups.com http://groups.google.com/group/yi-devel -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
