Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 02:15:33 -0700 (MST) From: ricci@cs.utah.edu To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: ports/24474: New port: x11-wm/ion - A window manager with a text-editorish, keyboard friendly interface Message-ID: <200101200915.f0K9FXC83975@hactar.xrob.org>
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>Number: 24474 >Category: ports >Synopsis: New port: x11-wm/ion - A window manager with a text-editorish, keyboard friendly interface >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-ports >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: change-request >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Sat Jan 20 01:20:01 PST 2001 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Robert P Ricci >Release: FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE i386 >Organization: University of Utah >Environment: >Description: From pkg-descr: Ion (based on PWM) is a new kind of window manager that brings a text-editorish, keyboard friendly user interface to window management. Modern GUIs are unusable. Overlapping windows are hard to manage, especially from the keyboard, and the user often ends up in a jungle. Not to mention the application programs, which are even worse. Mouse-based search-and-click interfaces are slow - keyboard is fast having learnt the commands. Ion (the last three letters of vision =-) was written as an example and an experiment of something presumably better (just the window manager, though). Ion simply divides the screen into frames that take the whole screen. Big displays have so much space that this is convenient and smaller displays couldn't show more than one window at a time anyway. The frames can be split and growing the size of one will shrink others. Alike in PWM, clients can be moved between frames and multiple clients can be attached to one frame. With Ion you will hardly ever have to touch the mouse again for navigation between windows and the windows are always in order. WWW: http://www.students.tut.fi/~tuomov/ion/ -- Robert Ricci ricci@cs.utah.edu >How-To-Repeat: >Fix: # This is a shell archive. Save it in a file, remove anything before # this line, and then unpack it by entering "sh file". Note, it may # create directories; files and directories will be owned by you and # have default permissions. # # This archive contains: # # ion # ion/pkg-comment # ion/Makefile # ion/distinfo # ion/pkg-descr # ion/pkg-plist # ion/files # ion/files/patch-system.mk # ion/files/patch-ion-view # ion/files/patch-ion-edit # echo c - ion mkdir -p ion > /dev/null 2>&1 echo x - ion/pkg-comment sed 's/^X//' >ion/pkg-comment << 'END-of-ion/pkg-comment' XA window manager with a text-editorish, keyboard friendly interface END-of-ion/pkg-comment echo x - ion/Makefile sed 's/^X//' >ion/Makefile << 'END-of-ion/Makefile' X# New ports collection makefile for: ion X# Date created: 20 January 2001 X# Whom: ricci X# X# $FreeBSD$ X# X XPORTNAME= ion XPORTVERSION= 20010106 XCATEGORIES= x11-wm XMASTER_SITES= http://www.students.tut.fi/~tuomov/dl/ X XMAINTAINER= ricci@cs.utah.edu X XMAN1= ion.1x X XUSE_X_PREFIX= yes XUSE_GMAKE= yes X X.include <bsd.port.mk> END-of-ion/Makefile echo x - ion/distinfo sed 's/^X//' >ion/distinfo << 'END-of-ion/distinfo' XMD5 (ion-20010106.tar.gz) = d192a99e71491f4d4e5e9432e1b003c3 END-of-ion/distinfo echo x - ion/pkg-descr sed 's/^X//' >ion/pkg-descr << 'END-of-ion/pkg-descr' XIon (based on PWM) is a new kind of window manager that brings a Xtext-editorish, keyboard friendly user interface to window management. X XModern GUIs are unusable. Overlapping windows are hard to manage, especially Xfrom the keyboard, and the user often ends up in a jungle. Not to mention the Xapplication programs, which are even worse. Mouse-based search-and-click Xinterfaces are slow - keyboard is fast having learnt the commands. Ion (the Xlast three letters of vision =-) was written as an example and an experiment of Xsomething presumably better (just the window manager, though). X XIon simply divides the screen into frames that take the whole screen. Big Xdisplays have so much space that this is convenient and smaller displays Xcouldn't show more than one window at a time anyway. The frames can be split Xand growing the size of one will shrink others. Alike in PWM, clients can be Xmoved between frames and multiple clients can be attached to one frame. X XWith Ion you will hardly ever have to touch the mouse again for navigation Xbetween windows and the windows are always in order. X XWWW: http://www.students.tut.fi/~tuomov/ion/ X X-- Robert Ricci X ricci@cs.utah.edu END-of-ion/pkg-descr echo x - ion/pkg-plist sed 's/^X//' >ion/pkg-plist << 'END-of-ion/pkg-plist' Xbin/ion Xbin/ion-edit Xbin/ion-man Xbin/ion-runinxterm Xbin/ion-ssh Xbin/ion-view Xetc/ion/bindings-default.conf Xetc/ion/bindings-sun.conf Xetc/ion/kludges.conf Xetc/ion/look-brownsteel.conf Xetc/ion/look-greyviolet.conf Xetc/ion/look-simpleblue.conf Xetc/ion/look-wheat.conf Xetc/ion/sample.conf Xetc/ion/ion.conf Xshare/doc/ion/README Xshare/doc/ion/LICENSE Xshare/doc/ion/ChangeLog Xshare/doc/ion/config.txt Xshare/doc/ion/functions.txt X@dirrm share/doc/ion X@dirrm etc/ion END-of-ion/pkg-plist echo c - ion/files mkdir -p ion/files > /dev/null 2>&1 echo x - ion/files/patch-system.mk sed 's/^X//' >ion/files/patch-system.mk << 'END-of-ion/files/patch-system.mk' X*** system.mk.orig Sat Jan 20 00:36:50 2001 X--- system.mk Sat Jan 20 01:22:15 2001 X*************** X*** 7,19 **** X ## Installation paths X ## X X! PREFIX=/usr/local X X # No need to modify these usually X BINDIR=$(PREFIX)/bin X ETCDIR=$(PREFIX)/etc X MANDIR=$(PREFIX)/man X! DOCDIR=$(PREFIX)/doc X # Not used X INCDIR=$(PREFIX)/include X LIBDIR=$(PREFIX)/lib X--- 7,19 ---- X ## Installation paths X ## X X! #PREFIX=/usr/local X X # No need to modify these usually X BINDIR=$(PREFIX)/bin X ETCDIR=$(PREFIX)/etc X MANDIR=$(PREFIX)/man X! DOCDIR=$(PREFIX)/share/doc X # Not used X INCDIR=$(PREFIX)/include X LIBDIR=$(PREFIX)/lib X*************** X*** 23,29 **** X ## X libraries, includes and options X ## X X! X11_PREFIX=/usr/X11R6 X X # SunOS/Solaris X #X11_PREFIX=/usr/openwin X--- 23,29 ---- X ## X libraries, includes and options X ## X X! X11_PREFIX=$(X11BASE) X X # SunOS/Solaris X #X11_PREFIX=/usr/openwin X*************** X*** 78,85 **** X -Wparentheses -pedantic-errors -Wuninitialized X X X! CFLAGS=-g -O2 $(WARN) $(DEFINES) $(INCLUDES) $(EXTRA_INCLUDES) X! LDFLAGS=-g $(LIBS) $(EXTRA_LIBS) X X X ## X--- 78,85 ---- X -Wparentheses -pedantic-errors -Wuninitialized X X X! CFLAGS+= $(WARN) $(DEFINES) $(INCLUDES) $(EXTRA_INCLUDES) X! LDFLAGS= $(LIBS) $(EXTRA_LIBS) X X X ## END-of-ion/files/patch-system.mk echo x - ion/files/patch-ion-view sed 's/^X//' >ion/files/patch-ion-view << 'END-of-ion/files/patch-ion-view' X*** scripts/ion-view.orig Sat Jan 20 01:44:05 2001 X--- scripts/ion-view Sat Jan 20 01:55:39 2001 X*************** X*** 1,7 **** X #!/bin/sh X if echo "$1"|grep -E '^([a-zA-Z]+://|www.)' > /dev/null; then X! exec netscape-remote "$1" X else X! exec run-mailcap --action=view "$1" > /dev/null X fi X X--- 1,7 ---- X #!/bin/sh X if echo "$1"|grep -E '^([a-zA-Z]+://|www.)' > /dev/null; then X! exec netscape "$1" X else X! exec ion-runinxterm -T $1 $EDITOR "$1" > /dev/null X fi END-of-ion/files/patch-ion-view echo x - ion/files/patch-ion-edit sed 's/^X//' >ion/files/patch-ion-edit << 'END-of-ion/files/patch-ion-edit' X*** scripts/ion-edit.orig Sat Jan 20 01:43:39 2001 X--- scripts/ion-edit Sat Jan 20 01:51:17 2001 X*************** X*** 1,2 **** X #!/bin/sh X! exec run-mailcap --action=edit "$1" > /dev/null X--- 1,2 ---- X #!/bin/sh X! exec ion-runinxterm -T $1 $EDITOR "$1" > /dev/null END-of-ion/files/patch-ion-edit exit >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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