Re: xlib binding

[Stephen Tse <stephent at sfu dot ca>]

Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.ping.de> writes:

> Stephen Tse <stephent@sfu.ca> writes:
> 
> > I want to play with low level xlib like tasks of window managers. I
> > want to do in scheme such that I do them interactively.
> 
> Julia Gosnell <julian.gosnell@nomura.co.uk> has been doing such a
> think some time ago.  I don't know how far he got, tho.

Thanks for the link.

> 
> His plan was to integrate the needed extra functionality for window
> managers into the Gtk+ framework and then simply wrap that with the
> existing guile-gtk machinery.  I think this is the right way.  I still
> have his code, but you might want to contact him directly.


Should I do yet another xlib binding? Is it worth it, or should I
better add to Gtk+? I haven't played Gtk+ much. Is its design clean
enough that it does not clustter me with extra functionality if I just 
want to do interactive window manager design?