I hacked together support for custom netwm icons set in the rules
section of .awesomerc, and for iconboxes and netwm icons to be scaled
to fit into the statusbar. It could probably be done a bit more
cleanly than I've done it, though :)
Rob
Besides making these functions much nicer to use, this fixes a number of
things:
- Clients now don't have to free the returned structures.
- The ScreenInfo allocated by XineramaQueryScreens should be freed with XFree,
not p_delete.
This patch also introduces an abstract Area type that will be very useful.
protocol to speak to them. Given a textbox widget definition like this:
textbox mail {
default = 0
}
textbox time {}
We can update the boxes individually by going:
echo 0 tell_widget mail 10
echo 0 tell_widget time 12:01
Text boxes will dynamically resize to fit their contents. A textbox can be
cleared by going:
echo 0 tell_widget name
A text-box containing no text will take up 0 space in the bar, i.e. it will not
be visible at all
Textboxes now supersede statusbar_set_text, so this call has been removed.
- rename parse_config to config_parse
- move KeyModList and ButtonList in their own functions
- move LayoutsList in layout.c
- move static fcts around in config.c
The big change here is that we now keep our configuration structure in a global
variable called globalconf. This radically simplifies many interfaces, since
passing awesomeconf everywhere is no longer necessary. There are also more
subtle interface effects - now we can reliably identify a screen from just a
screen ID, rather than an awesomeconf, screenid tuple.
Overall, this patch makes most of the interfaces in awesome much nicer to use -
enjoy!
Yes, this is a huge patch, but since a lot of the refactoring was done
systematically using vim macros, splitting this up would have been very hard.
We now have the beginnings of a flexible widget structure for the statusbar.
For now, there is no behavioural change, and the interface is a bit crude, but
watch this space!
- reloadconfig never worked properly. There were a number of circumstances
under which it would crash awesome.
- reloadconfig always leaked memory, because our cleanup process was never
perfect. Making it perfect would be Hard.
- Just exec-ing awesome over the top of itself is an OK solution. Maybe we
should add a uicb_restart to do this so users don't have to think about
uicb_exec.
Julien Danjou
Robert Millar
Aldo Cortesi