[Cuis-dev] WindowManager package

Luciano Notarfrancesco luchiano at gmail.com
Mon Feb 10 23:31:12 PST 2025


Hi Mariano,
I didn’t check your image yet, but it sounds like a good idea to separate
the window contents from the actual system window, so that anyone could
implement their own favorite look and feel in a package.

Cheers,
Luciano

On Mon, Feb 10, 2025 at 23:23 Mariano Montone via Cuis-dev <
cuis-dev at lists.cuis.st> wrote:

>
> El 10/2/25 a las 13:09, Mariano Montone escribió:
> >
> > I would like Cuis to have a configurable WindowManager that takes care
> > of window positioning, etc, but also let you choose the class of
> > window to use by making SystemWindow wrap their contents, and not have
> > subclasses of it for the different applications. So, it would be
> > composition over inheritance. Like, instead of a SystemBrowserWindow,
> > have MySystemWindow open: Browser, and the window system class
> > (MySystemWindow) is configured by the WindowManager.
> >
> > It can be done, and I have prototyped it, but I didn't take it to the
> end.
> >
> Here is an old image with a prototype of the idea:
>
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/1r-K2uTQsnAIIlolDrRHzpAJYozdq8Zad/view?usp=sharing
>
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