[openbox] Any plans for adding patterns on windows to the Next/Prevwindow

[Ben Jansens]

On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 12:15:19AM +0100, Jesper Louis Andersen wrote:
> Do you have any plans regarding adding in a pattern language for
> Window selection operations like the one fvwm(2) has? I do not know

No, I don't have any such plans.

> if this is the correct solution for your wm, but it might be a 
> good solution I think since it is general and allows for much
> configuration. Assume that I can write:

I've actually been about requiring as little configuration as possible and
just doing the "right thing" or something intelligent instead if possible.

> NextWindow (!Iconic, !Shaded)
> 
> Where the last is a pattern which has to match in order to select the
> window in question. It can be implemented by having a function
> g_boolean pattern_match(pattern *, window *), returning a boolean
> value on if the window matched. The Searches should be easy to build
> around this. 

Neet idea though. It's similar code-wise to what is used in Openbox, only the
"patterns" are not configurable of course.

> If speed is of concern (it is not, but imagine it is), you could 

Yah, that definitely wouldn't be a problem :)

Cheers,
ben
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