jeudi 8 novembre 2012

About Desktop Environments, *nix, asynchronous monitoring

Simplest reactive UI, the unix way ?


I was happy when I saw KDE4 and recent Gnome DE include sophisticated notifications system (finally) but field testing wasn't so good. Using a not so recent ThinkPad laptop, I aimed toward a simpler, lighter graphical interface, namely Xmonad/Xmobar in almost vanilla state. Being new to haskell, and to tweaking a basic (arch)linux, I delayed for many monthes until I finally eat it.
Adding a bunch of sensors to xmobar/dzen is easy. dzen even handles mouse events so you can have active notifications. There's also dunst to pop notification bubbles when you need it, where you need it. Basically with the right amount of pretty-good glue, you'd have enough asynchronousness to monitor secondary tasks without needing anything more than 2 simple programs.

to be continued...

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