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Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> You are assuming that smaller WMs don't need IPC. I believe that assumption to |
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> be false. If my belief is true, then your argument falls flat. |
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Guess what, there are even very small WMs that have an IPC, and a |
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very clear/portable/network-agnostic one: wmii uses 9P. |
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> By way of example: printing. By no stretch of the imagination can printing be |
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> considered to be a niche function. How will an arbitrary app find your |
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> printers? There are multiple print server around. So, you could: |
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lpr ? |
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If it's interface is not enough anymore, invent a new one. |
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Perhaps as a filesystem. 9P makes this *very* easy. |
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> Multimedia buttons. One of the most confounding things on modern hardware are |
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> multimedia buttons. Volume is easy - make it adjust the sound server. |
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man 1 plumb |
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Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ |
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cellphone: +49 174 7066481 email: info@×××××.de skype: nekrad666 |
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