<div dir="auto">Yes… we might not agree on what the best features should be, but maybe some small change in the base image could make it more easy to implement these things in packages. I don’t have any concrete proposal tho, just putting this idea out.</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Feb 10, 2025 at 19:35 Mark Volkmann <<a href="mailto:r.mark.volkmann@gmail.com">r.mark.volkmann@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><div dir="ltr">Yes, it would be great to collaborate on creating a package that combines the best features of these efforts. We could also discuss whether any of them seem suitable to include in the base image. Perhaps that is largely based on the size of the changes, preferring smaller changes.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Feb 10, 2025 at 4:21 AM Luciano Notarfrancesco <<a href="mailto:luchiano@gmail.com" target="_blank">luchiano@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><div><div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:-apple-system,helveticaneue;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0)">It seems several of us have already implemented different versions of the “window manager” thing to replace some of the default behavior of windows, do tiling, create or change global keyboard shortcuts, implement virtual pages or screens, etc. I made my own tiling window manager just as I like it, and I disable the taskbar and use something else instead (a small widget to show in which page you are, and which pages have opened windows).</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:-apple-system,helveticaneue;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:-apple-system,helveticaneue;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0)">I think, perhaps, at some point we could have some object grouping together these things, with a default in the base image (like Themes), and packages could implement different ways of managing windows. I have a WindowManagerMorph class <div style="font-family:-apple-system,helveticaneue" dir="auto"><a href="https://github.com/len/Cuis-Smalltalk-DWM/blob/9b0f0b95aca31f8a8b3c8dee95fabedfcfc9c55d/Morphic-DWM.pck.st#L586" style="font-family:-apple-system,helveticaneue" target="_blank">https://github.com/len/Cuis-Smalltalk-DWM/blob/9b0f0b95aca31f8a8b3c8dee95fabedfcfc9c55d/Morphic-DWM.pck.st#L586</a><span style="font-family:-apple-system,helveticaneue;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0)"> that receives messages when windows are opened or closed (and could do window positioning ), and receives keystroke events (possibly handling them before any other morph, in order to implement global shortcuts). I think these three messages are the main “hooks” I needed to add, perhaps other people need others. Opinions?</span></div></div></div><br></div><div dir="auto">Cheers,<br></div><div dir="auto">Luciano</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Feb 10, 2025 at 02:41 Mark Volkmann via Cuis-dev <<a href="mailto:cuis-dev@lists.cuis.st" target="_blank">cuis-dev@lists.cuis.st</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><div dir="ltr"><div>Checkout my WindowManager package at <a href="https://github.com/mvolkmann/Cuis-Smalltalk-WindowManager" target="_blank">https://github.com/mvolkmann/Cuis-Smalltalk-WindowManager</a>. This addresses two issues. The first is where windows are opened. The second is the ability to save and restore window locations and sizes. The README explains all of this and there is a link to a video at the bottom of the README that demonstrates all the features.</div></div><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">R. Mark Volkmann</font></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Object Computing, Inc.</font></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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