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diff --git a/doc/info/mds.texinfo b/doc/info/mds.texinfo index 47cbe6a..e45fa77 100644 --- a/doc/info/mds.texinfo +++ b/doc/info/mds.texinfo @@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ Rather than one, possibly modular, process --- a monolithic process --- @code{mds} is comprised of many small servers, each exchangable and responsible for one thing. -@cindex Goals of @command{mds} +@cpindex Goals of @command{mds} @command{mds}'s goal is neither security, performance nor a perfect graphical experience. @command{mds} is all about flexibility and freedom 0@footnote{The freedom to run @@ -1841,6 +1841,7 @@ information. @pgindex @command{mds-kbdbind} @pgindex @command{xbindkeys} @pgindex @command{dmenu} +@cpindex Hotkeys @cpindex Keyboard bindings @cpindex Bindings, keyboard @cpindex Layout, keyboard, switching @@ -10238,10 +10239,11 @@ as one binary. @cpindex Wayland @cpindex Weston @cpindex Surface Flinger +@cpindex Andriod/Linux, Surface Flinger @cpindex Quartz Compositor -@cpindex Desktop Window Manager @cpindex Mac OS X, Quartz Compositor @cpindex OS X, Quartz Compositor +@cpindex Desktop Window Manager @cpindex Windows, Desktop Window Manager Implementations: X11@footnote{X11 is a protocol, I beleave all X11 servers are monolithic, atleast the major ones are}, @@ -10753,6 +10755,9 @@ MIT license, and hopefully we can steal some stuff. @node Desktop Environments @section Desktop Environments +@cpindex Goals of @command{mds} +@cpindex Desktop environments +@cpindex Environment, desktop A design goal of @command{mds} is to bring unity to the graphical environment. Something desktop environments traditionally have been impairing. @@ -10800,12 +10805,12 @@ A bunch of random graphical tools This is absolute madness, a waste of time and creates fragmentation. -There is no problem of a desktop environment +There is no problem for a desktop environment development team to implement all this for their desktop environment for @command{mds}. However doing so is discourage for the mentioned reasons as well as because doing so means that -the use needs to know what not too launch, +the user needs to know what not to launch, that is, what the desktop environment will start. @menu @@ -10820,6 +10825,12 @@ that is, what the desktop environment will start. @node Window Management @subsection Window Management +@cpindex Window management +@cpindex Widdow layout managers +@cpindex Hotkeys +@cpindex Keyboard bindings +@cpindex Bindings, keyboard +@pgindex @command{mds-keybind} For @command{mds}, a desktop environment should not have its own window layout manager. A better solution is to have a few well written window @@ -10832,25 +10843,28 @@ messaging system for such commands, and @command{mds-keybind} or similar server should be configured with all hotkeys. +@cpindex Window decorators +@cpindex Decorators, windows There are a few classes of window decorator. A desktop environment still do not need its own. They can however create themes for existing decorators. What we need here is a small set of window decorators that are very customisable. +@cpindex Workspaces +@cpindex Pagers Workspaces in X is poorly done. Window managers implement it, and pagers are window manager dependent@footnote{Well, there is Extended Window -Manager Hints (EWMH), but for it is very -restrictly.}. Yet there are very few properties -they can have: +Manager Hints (EWMH), but it is very restricted.}. +Yet there are very few properties they can have: @itemize @bullet{} @item Do workspaces span outputs, screens or the display? @item Are workspaces dependent on outputs, screens or displays? @item -Are workspaces have a geometrical position? +Do workspaces have a geometrical position? @item Are new workspaces created when needed? @end itemize @@ -10859,6 +10873,9 @@ these can be configured. And the desktop environments can create their own pagers if they see fit, but all pagers work everywhere. +@cpindex Compositors +@cpindex Fancy effects +@cpindex Effects, fancy Traditionally desktop environments wrote their own compositor for flash or otherwise fancy effects, or write a quirks to a common one so the common on could @@ -10873,6 +10890,10 @@ want to have, such be no problem. @node Application Management @subsection Application Management +@cpindex Application management +@cpindex Taskbars +@cpindex Extended Window Manager Hints +@cpindex EWMH (Extended Window Manager Hints) Many X desktop environments provide taskbars, where all windows are listed. However because of Extended Window Manager Hints (EWMH), and the ability to @@ -10889,10 +10910,13 @@ be about to restrict listed windows to viewed workspaces. @end itemize +@cpindex Status icon tray +@cpindex System tray +@cpindex Tray, status icons Traditionally, status icon trays have been implemented with window embed method. And apart from there being two competing standard, this -is be pretty sane. But ther have been some +is pretty sane. But ther have been some restrictions @command{mds} does not suffer: @itemize @bullet{} @item @@ -10908,6 +10932,10 @@ application menus. This functionally is already de facto standardised, and there is no reason to change anything. +@cpindex Startup of applications, automatic +@cpindex Automatic startup of application +@cpindex Application, startup, automatic +@pgindex @file{mdsinitrc} Some desktop environments provide a method to for automatically starting applications during the startup of a desktop environment. This is @@ -10919,6 +10947,12 @@ edit @file{~/.mdsinitrc}. @node Input Management @subsection Input Management +@cpindex Input management +@cpindex Window management +@cpindex Hotkeys +@cpindex Keyboard bindings +@cpindex Bindings, keyboard +@pgindex @command{mds-keybind} Many desktop environments and window managers for X implement global keyboard bindings. This is not how you should do this. The servers @@ -10927,6 +10961,18 @@ should recognise commands passed via Configurations of the keyboard bindings should be done in a server like @command{mds-keybind}. +@pgindex @command{mds-ratbind} +@cpindex Rat bindings +@cpindex Mouse bindings +@cpindex Pointer bindings +@cpindex Hotcorners +@pgindex @command{mds-ratbarrier} +@cpindex Cursor barriers +@cpindex Rat pointer barriers +@cpindex Mouse pointer barriers +@cpindex Pointer barriers +@cpindex Screen edges, barriers +@cpindex Barriers, rat Similarily some desktop environments implement rat bindings@footnote{Notably hot corners.} and rat barriers. This too should be done via servers @@ -10938,6 +10984,11 @@ like like @command{mds-ratbind} and like @node The Desktop @subsection The Desktop +@cpindex Desktop +@cpindex File manager +@cpindex Background +@cpindex Root window +@cpindex Window, root Desktop environments provide their own desktop because they want it to fit the rest of the environment. For example, it can use components @@ -10949,6 +11000,8 @@ also implemented on top of the root windows. background and let the root window be used for implementing the background. +@cpindex Desktop widgets +@cpindex Widgets, desktop Additionally, some desktop environments provide desktop widgets. These can either be drawn on the root window, the desktop window or as |