Re: [dev] Conversation with Anselm R. Garbe of suckless.org

2009-09-18 Thread Charlie Kester
On Fri 18 Sep 2009 at 18:33:48 PDT Pinocchio wrote: On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 22:41:16 -0700, Uriel wrote: Please, lets kill this before it even gets started, we had a huge discussion about this crap in 9fans if anyone is interested. Can you summarize why do you think it is crap, for those who are

Re: [dev] Conversation with Anselm R. Garbe of suckless.org

2009-09-18 Thread Uriel
On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 3:33 AM, Pinocchio wrote: > On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 22:41:16 -0700, Uriel wrote: > >>> >>> Did you take a look at the "blocks" extension to the C language in >>> Apple's >>> recently opensourced GCD? They fought with some of the same problems you >>> mention above but they wor

Re: [dev] Conversation with Anselm R. Garbe of suckless.org

2009-09-18 Thread Pinocchio
On Fri, 18 Sep 2009 06:22:44 -0700, frederic wrote: The OO debate in this thread is also very interesting. I would argue that its really a trade-off between "predicting" future changes in your source and "getting the prediction wrong". I would argue that it is _great_ to see a lot of code reuse

Re: [dev] Conversation with Anselm R. Garbe of suckless.org

2009-09-18 Thread Pinocchio
On Fri, 18 Sep 2009 14:46:35 -0700, Uriel wrote: On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 3:22 PM, frederic wrote: Anticipating changes in the code is a generally a bad idea, because your predictions are likely to fail This can't be repeated often enough. Your predictions are not likely to fail, they are *b

Re: [dev] Conversation with Anselm R. Garbe of suckless.org

2009-09-18 Thread Pinocchio
On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 22:41:16 -0700, Uriel wrote: Did you take a look at the "blocks" extension to the C language in Apple's recently opensourced GCD? They fought with some of the same problems you mention above but they worked around it. Please, lets kill this before it even gets started, we

Re: [dev] Conversation with Anselm R. Garbe of suckless.org

2009-09-18 Thread Uriel
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 3:22 PM, frederic wrote: > Anticipating changes in the code is a generally a bad idea, because your > predictions are likely to fail This can't be repeated often enough. Your predictions are not likely to fail, they are *bound to crumble in an epic implosion of pure fail*.

Re: [dev] [surf] Toggle Flash

2009-09-18 Thread Daniel Bainton
2009/9/18 hiro <23h...@googlemail.com>: > Not sure if this is relevant, but I've found the best way to stay calm > while browsing the interwebs is using whitelists. > A good UI implementation would include a flash and java script button > which would add the site and load the scripts... > > Is Nosc

Re: [dev][surf] Basic Address Auto-Completion

2009-09-18 Thread Anselm R Garbe
Why not using dmenu for that? Just an idea though... On Sep 18, 2009 8:34 PM, "Rory Rory" wrote: Here is the actual patch. Sorry, I sent the wrong file the first time. On 9/18/09, Rory Rory wrote: > Sorry, the patch I sent is broken. If you ... -- Rory

Re: [dev][surf] Basic Address Auto-Completion

2009-09-18 Thread Rory Rory
Here is the actual patch. Sorry, I sent the wrong file the first time. On 9/18/09, Rory Rory wrote: > Sorry, the patch I sent is broken. If you replace strcat(...) on line > 426 with g_strconcat(workdir,"/urls.txt",NULL) it will work. > > On 9/18/09, Rory McCann wrote: >> Hello >> >> I've added

Re: [dev][surf] Basic Address Auto-Completion

2009-09-18 Thread Rory Rory
Sorry, the patch I sent is broken. If you replace strcat(...) on line 426 with g_strconcat(workdir,"/urls.txt",NULL) it will work. On 9/18/09, Rory McCann wrote: > Hello > > I've added a very simple url completion mode to surf, using a > GtkEntryCompletion object. It only completes urls from a fi

[dev][surf] Basic Address Auto-Completion

2009-09-18 Thread Rory McCann
Hello I've added a very simple url completion mode to surf, using a GtkEntryCompletion object. It only completes urls from a file just now, although I'm hoping to add history completion as well. It reads from ~/.surf/urls.txt and each address should be on a new line. Bear in mind that it isn't

Re: [dev][surf] Next schedule?

2009-09-18 Thread hiro
>> I don't see how that hits any reasonably modern computer resources (I >> mean Opera, firefox is notorious for bringing down to its knees anything >> you throw at it). Resource usage is not an argument in this discussion >> for me. Actually, I'd use dwm were it written in Tcl/Tk or Python, for I

Re: [dev] [surf] is this available to download something with surf?

2009-09-18 Thread hiro
You could use jdownloader for rapidshit. The UI is shit but you can also talk to it via telnet I think. I'm sorry for recommending java software, but I've seen no better implementation for this task. On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 7:15 PM, Slawomir Gonet wrote: > Hello. > I'm trying to use start using s

Re: [dev] [surf] Toggle Flash

2009-09-18 Thread hiro
Not sure if this is relevant, but I've found the best way to stay calm while browsing the interwebs is using whitelists. A good UI implementation would include a flash and java script button which would add the site and load the scripts... Is Noscript working this way? On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 2:4

Re: [dev] [surf] Scrolling bug

2009-09-18 Thread joshua shaw
On 9/18/09, Claudio M. Alessi wrote: > On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 11:27:41PM +0200, pancake wrote: >> Flash sucks > Yeah. It may be the problem. If not, no matter: flash sucks anyway :-) > > > Regards, > Claudio M. Alessi > > -- > JID: smoppy AT gmail.com > WWW: http://cma.teroristi.org > > I was ex

Re: [dev] Conversation with Anselm R. Garbe of suckless.org

2009-09-18 Thread frederic
On Fri, 18 Sep 2009 05:00:05 +0200, Pinocchio wrote: On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 04:58:39 -0700, Szabolcs Nagy wrote: On 9/16/09, Frederic DUBOIS wrote: 2009/9/16 Uriel : On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 12:03 AM, frederic wrote: I'm pretty sure that if C featured closures, Anselm would cleverly use

Re: [dev] Conversation with Anselm R. Garbe of suckless.org

2009-09-18 Thread Uriel
Type checking is only needed if your language needs ot have types, one of the most amazing discoveries for me while using rc ( http://rc.cat-v.org ) to build werc ( http://werc.cat-v.org ) is how well things can work with just one datatype (in the case of rc, the list of strings). Type cheking is

Re: [dev] [surf] Toggle Flash

2009-09-18 Thread Enno Boland (Gottox)
thanks a lot :) 2009/9/18 pancake : > http://surf.suckless.org/files/ -- http://gnuffy.chaotika.org - Real Community Distro

Re: [dev] [surf] Toggle Flash

2009-09-18 Thread pancake
http://surf.suckless.org/files/ Enno Boland (Gottox) wrote: Feel free to add them to the cms :) 2009/9/18 pancake : We should put these scripts and CSS's available in the website (like in dwm patches) Enno Boland (Gottox) wrote: for now there's a user-javascript which can be used to

Re: [dev] [surf] Toggle Flash

2009-09-18 Thread Enno Boland (Gottox)
Feel free to add them to the cms :) 2009/9/18 pancake : > We should put these scripts and CSS's available in the website (like in dwm > patches) > > Enno Boland (Gottox) wrote: >> >> for now there's a user-javascript which can be used to hide most >> flashbanners/javaapplets. Later there will be a

Re: [dev] [surf] Toggle Flash

2009-09-18 Thread pancake
We should put these scripts and CSS's available in the website (like in dwm patches) Enno Boland (Gottox) wrote: for now there's a user-javascript which can be used to hide most flashbanners/javaapplets. Later there will be also something like noscript/adblock. Here's an example to hide flash/

Re: [dev] [surf] Toggle Flash

2009-09-18 Thread Enno Boland (Gottox)
for now there's a user-javascript which can be used to hide most flashbanners/javaapplets. Later there will be also something like noscript/adblock. Here's an example to hide flash/java. put it into ~/.surf/script.js: var elementNames = new Array("object","applet"); for(var i = 0; i < elementNam

Re: [dev] [surf] Scrolling bug

2009-09-18 Thread Claudio M. Alessi
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 11:27:41PM +0200, pancake wrote: > Flash sucks Yeah. It may be the problem. If not, no matter: flash sucks anyway :-) Regards, Claudio M. Alessi -- JID: smoppy AT gmail.com WWW: http://cma.teroristi.org

Re: [dev] Conversation with Anselm R. Garbe of suckless.org

2009-09-18 Thread carmen
> Also, I would like to know, what do people on this list feel about type > checking in general? a fan, definitely. if i gave a damn about customizing my WM i'd use xmonad. but stock dwm is fine..