yab for sure is great, but have you seen engage? i
like some of its features that yab doesn't have. it would
be cool to be able to minimize tasks to bar, or use the bar
like regular task switcher.
Well, yab is more a demo/toy for me than a serious desklet
right now. I do not want it to become overly complicated, as
many people are looking at it (against my better jugdment, I
must say), to build their own code. I do not use this as a
lame excuse for not implementing what you talk about though,
as I sure love engage look! I will thing about it and let you
know... Maybe can you help? :-)
another thing is that imlib2 is the best raster graphic
library, but how about doing something like yab using cairo
library (vector graphics)?
I would think using cairo would mean a seperate
interpreter? or maybe adesklets could be extended to use
cairo, but this might unnecessarily bloat the
interpreter...which is anathema at this point.
I like this anathema bit. :lol: No, seriously, you already
explained it yourself - Imlib2 is raster oriented, and
adesklets is a intercative imlib2 console, and do not aim at
being anything more... You might want to look at the
yab topic for further discussion about
this.
I do not say Cairo is bad. In fact I like it a lot and use
xsvg myself. It is just than I do not thing it to be
that useful in this specific
case. I must also point out that it would be possible to
create a high-level cairo interface without ever touching the
interpreter (thanks to
pycairo). It's
just not a priority for me right now.
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