Re: [RP] feature request; change to defwinpos

[Jonathan Walther]

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Mike, how many times do we have to repeat the mantra: NO BLOAT!
Corba is bloatbloatBLOAT.  Plus its overkill for something thats
already done by ratpoison using X WM_PROTOCOL events and Atoms,
at no additional code-bloat overhead.

Jonathan

On Sun, 14 Oct 2001, Mike Meyer wrote:
> Jonathan Walther <address@hidden> types:
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> > Thank you.  Appreciate that.  However, doing the "windows %n %i"
> > and grepping is quite bloaty when I want to translate a X id to
> > an rp id from within my C code.
> >
> > If you would save code all around, instead of making the window
> > number (according to rp) be the optional argument to delete,
> > gravity, etc, make it be the X window id.  Shell scripts can
> > then do the grep thing, and people using xlib inside C code
> > can simply insert their window id.
>
> Just out of curiosity, what other than set the window gravity (nee
> position) does C code with the window id need to ask ratpoison to do
> for it?
>
> As a plug, I'll note that a CORBAfied rp would let you do all this
> from C as easily as from any other language.

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