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Date:      Sat,  7 Feb 2004 19:05:07 +0100 (CET)
From:      Anthony Ginepro <anthony.ginepro@laposte.net>
To:        FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   ports/62486: [NEW PORT] x11-wm/ion-2: Ion is a tiling tabbed window manager designed with keyboard users in mind.
Message-ID:  <20040207180507.2FA3824C4@renaissance.homeip.net>
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>Number:         62486
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       [NEW PORT] x11-wm/ion-2: Ion is a tiling tabbed window manager designed with keyboard users in mind.
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Feb 07 10:10:07 PST 2004
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Anthony Ginepro <anthony.ginepro@laposte.net>
>Release:        FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE-p2 i386
>Organization:
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>Environment:
System: FreeBSD renaissance.homeip.net 5.2-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE-p2 #2: Thu Feb 5 21:15:56 CET 2004 rapiere@renaissance.homeip.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/RENAISSANCE i386
>Description:
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://modeemi.cs.tut.fi/~tuomov/ion/

(Note: I haven't had answer from x11-wm/ion maintainer, so I submit this as a new port)
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:

--- ion-2.shar begins here ---
# 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-2
#	ion-2/files
#	ion-2/files/patch-rules.mk
#	ion-2/files/patch-system.mk
#	ion-2/distinfo
#	ion-2/Makefile
#	ion-2/pkg-descr
#
echo c - ion-2
mkdir -p ion-2 > /dev/null 2>&1
echo c - ion-2/files
mkdir -p ion-2/files > /dev/null 2>&1
echo x - ion-2/files/patch-rules.mk
sed 's/^X//' >ion-2/files/patch-rules.mk << 'END-of-ion-2/files/patch-rules.mk'
X--- rules.mk	Wed Jun 18 14:12:19 2003
X+++ rules.mk.bsd	Sun Aug 17 20:28:21 2003
X@@ -84,6 +84,7 @@
X module_install:
X 	$(INSTALLDIR) $(MODULEDIR)
X 	$(LIBTOOL) --mode=install $(INSTALL) -s -m $(BIN_MODE) $(MODULE).la $(MODULEDIR)
X+	$(INSTALL) -m $(BIN_MODE) $(MODULE).la $(MODULEDIR)
X 
END-of-ion-2/files/patch-rules.mk
echo x - ion-2/files/patch-system.mk
sed 's/^X//' >ion-2/files/patch-system.mk << 'END-of-ion-2/files/patch-system.mk'
X--- system.mk	Sat Jan 31 16:44:45 2004
X+++ system.mk.bsd	Sat Jan 31 19:45:30 2004
X@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
X ## Installation paths
X ##
X 
X-PREFIX=/usr/local
X+#PREFIX=/usr/local
X 
X # Unless you are creating a package conforming to some OS's standards, you
X # probably do not want to modify the following directories:
X@@ -40,11 +40,11 @@
X # libtool because even more-recent-than-libtool-1.4.3 releases of those
X # OSes only have an _ancient_ 1.3.x libtool that _will_ _not_ _work even
X # though a lot of libltdl-using apps require 1.4.3.
X-LIBTOOL=libtool
X+LIBTOOL=/usr/local/bin/libtool15 --tag=CC
X 
X # Settings for compiling and linking to ltdl
X-LTDL_INCLUDES=
X-LTDL_LIBS=-lltdl
X+LTDL_INCLUDES=-I/usr/local/include
X+LTDL_LIBS=-L/usr/local/lib -lltdl
X 
X # The following should do it if you have manually installed libtool 1.5 in
X # $(LIBTOOLDIR).
X@@ -138,8 +138,8 @@
X 	-Wtrigraphs -Wformat -Wchar-subscripts \
X 	-Wparentheses -pedantic -Wuninitialized
X 
X-CFLAGS=-g -Os $(WARN) $(DEFINES) $(INCLUDES) $(EXTRA_INCLUDES)
X-LDFLAGS=-g -Os $(LIBS) $(EXTRA_LIBS)
X+CFLAGS+= $(WARN) $(DEFINES) $(INCLUDES) $(EXTRA_INCLUDES)
X+LDFLAGS+= $(LIBS) $(EXTRA_LIBS)
X 
X # The following options are mainly for development use and can be used
X # to check that the code seems to conform to some standards. Depending
X@@ -188,9 +188,9 @@
X ##
X 
X # Should work almost everywhere
X-INSTALL=install
X+#INSTALL=install
X # On a system with pure BSD install, -c might be preferred
X-#INSTALL=install -c
X+INSTALL=install -c
X 
X INSTALLDIR=mkdir -p
X 
END-of-ion-2/files/patch-system.mk
echo x - ion-2/distinfo
sed 's/^X//' >ion-2/distinfo << 'END-of-ion-2/distinfo'
XMD5 (ion-2-20040207.tar.gz) = d20cde38bdc15e7e4824cf1140440f51
XSIZE (ion-2-20040207.tar.gz) = 376466
END-of-ion-2/distinfo
echo x - ion-2/Makefile
sed 's/^X//' >ion-2/Makefile << 'END-of-ion-2/Makefile'
X# New ports collection makefile for:   ion-devel
X# Date created:        20 August 2003
X# Whom:                anthony.ginepro@laposte.net
X# Original ion port:   ricci@cs.utah.edu
X#
X# $FreeBSD$
X#
X
XPORTNAME=	ion-2
XPORTVERSION=	20040207
XCATEGORIES=	x11-wm
XMASTER_SITES=	http://modeemi.fi/~tuomov/dl/
X
XMAINTAINER=	anthony.ginepro@laposte.net
XCOMMENT=	Ion is a tiling tabbed window manager designed with keyboard users in mind.
X
XLIB_DEPENDS=	ltdl.4:${PORTSDIR}/devel/libltdl
XBUILD_DEPENDS=	lua:${PORTSDIR}/lang/lua
X
XCONFLICTS=	ion-2002* ion-devel-*
X
XWANT_LIBTOOL_VER?=15
XUSE_X_PREFIX=	yes
XUSE_XLIB=	yes
XUSE_GMAKE=	yes
XINSTALLS_SHLIB=	yes
X
XMAN1=		ion.1 pwm.1
XMAN1PREFIX=	${PREFIX}/share
XDOCSDIR=	share/doc/ion
X
XPLIST_FILES=	bin/ion
XION_DIRS=	etc/ion \
X		lib/ion \
X		share/ion
X
X# dynamically built pkg-plist
X.include <bsd.port.pre.mk>
Xpost-install:
X.for dir in ${ION_DIRS}
X	cd ${PREFIX} ; find ${dir} -type f -o -type l >> ${TMPPLIST}
X	echo "@dirrm ${dir}" >> ${TMPPLIST}
X.endfor
X.include <bsd.port.post.mk>
END-of-ion-2/Makefile
echo x - ion-2/pkg-descr
sed 's/^X//' >ion-2/pkg-descr << 'END-of-ion-2/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://modeemi.cs.tut.fi/~tuomov/ion/
END-of-ion-2/pkg-descr
exit
--- ion-2.shar ends here ---

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