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Re: xlib binding
Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.ping.de> writes:
> Stephen Tse <stephent@sfu.ca> writes:
>
> > I want to play with low level xlib like tasks of window managers. I
> > want to do in scheme such that I do them interactively.
>
> Julia Gosnell <julian.gosnell@nomura.co.uk> has been doing such a
> think some time ago. I don't know how far he got, tho.
Thanks for the link.
>
> His plan was to integrate the needed extra functionality for window
> managers into the Gtk+ framework and then simply wrap that with the
> existing guile-gtk machinery. I think this is the right way. I still
> have his code, but you might want to contact him directly.
Should I do yet another xlib binding? Is it worth it, or should I
better add to Gtk+? I haven't played Gtk+ much. Is its design clean
enough that it does not clustter me with extra functionality if I just
want to do interactive window manager design?