Re: mosquito

[Preben Randhol <randhol pvv org>]

Michael Rogers <m.rogers@cs.ucl.ac.uk> writes:

| Preben Randhol wrote:
| > 
| > Now that mosquito is in alpha it would be nice to try to compile it at
| > least, but there are no links to the software on the software
| > map. Anybody know where one can download a copy to try out?
| 
| There's no URL because the current version isn't suitable for working on -
| it's basically just a mutilated version of wm2, which is written in C++.
| Paul Warren and I want to rewrite mosquito in C, using GTK+, so the
| version we're playing with bears no resemblance to the finished product.
| If that doesn't put you off, you can get an out-of-date tarball from
| www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/students/mrogers/mosquito.tgz, but this doesn't have
| Paul's changes to save window positions in the session. You could email
| him for a more up-to-date tarball (pdw@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk).
| 
| The reason I updated the software map entry was to remove the phrase
| "based on wm2" from the description - while I was there I changed the
| current version from "pre alpha" to "alpha", but maybe that was a bit
| optimistic!  ;)

I see :-) I thought as it went alpha that it was "playable" :-), but
I'll wait for next update. :)

Btw. are you intending to use the window-dressing of the wm2 or do you
intend to make the sought after Gnome Window Manager?
 
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