Re: [dev] A new FIFO based tox client

2014-09-30 Thread Dimitris Papastamos
On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 11:21:53PM +0100, Nick wrote: > How does that sound? I'm tempted to hack something together, so > feedback would be very welcome. Please keep in mind that we have not yet written an external client on top of the FIFO interface. It is likely that some important bits are mi

Re: [dev] A new FIFO based tox client

2014-09-29 Thread FRIGN
On Mon, 29 Sep 2014 23:38:47 +0100 Dimitris Papastamos wrote: > dwm with the fifo patch[0] could work fine. I generally work in tmux > that's why hysteria is done like that. Also it is mostly running on > a remote machine where I don't have X. You can tunnel your traffic > but when your machin

Re: [dev] A new FIFO based tox client

2014-09-29 Thread FRIGN
On Mon, 29 Sep 2014 23:21:53 +0100 Nick wrote: > Sounds great, good job on this. I haven't read about Tox in any > depth, so don't know how lovely or otherwise it is as a protocol. > What do you folks think? Well, as a short comment: Tox is an emerging protocol and will have its share sooner

Re: [dev] A new FIFO based tox client

2014-09-29 Thread Dimitris Papastamos
On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 11:21:53PM +0100, Nick wrote: > Sounds great, good job on this. I haven't read about Tox in any > depth, so don't know how lovely or otherwise it is as a protocol. > What do you folks think? I'd say pretty much sensible. The API is nice too. > Quoth FRIGN: > > Based o

Re: [dev] A new FIFO based tox client

2014-09-29 Thread Lee Fallat
On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 6:21 PM, Nick wrote: > The sort of dwm / X client I'm imagining would have a separate > program for contact list, and for each "conversation" (one window > split into input box and output). The contact list could just spawn > the conversation windows, or they could be spawn

Re: [dev] A new FIFO based tox client

2014-09-29 Thread Nick
Sounds great, good job on this. I haven't read about Tox in any depth, so don't know how lovely or otherwise it is as a protocol. What do you folks think? Quoth FRIGN: > Based on ratox, TLH and I will work on a set of scripts/client > rather similar to hysteria[5] with tmux and other tools > (

Re: [dev] A new FIFO based tox client

2014-09-29 Thread Lee Fallat
Hey, Good job guys. I just read the site and both your write-ups and I've got to say this seems very appealing to me. I love how the software is not reliant on vt100 terminal emulation or huge libraries. Your FIFO approach seems great as well. Keep up the good work. Looking forward to release 0.0

Re: [dev] A new FIFO based tox client

2014-09-29 Thread FRIGN
On Mon, 29 Sep 2014 20:57:51 +0100 Dimitris Papastamos wrote: > Thanks Dimitris for the great introduction! It goes without saying that the motivation to develop a new client is also more or less rooted in the quality of existing clients. While developing ratox in the last two weeks, we had lots

[dev] A new FIFO based tox client

2014-09-29 Thread Dimitris Papastamos
Hi all, Me and FRIGN started working on a simple FIFO based tox client called ratox[0]. I started working on it initially because of my frustration trying to get toxic/uTox to build and run properly under OpenBSD. For those not familiar with tox, have a look at https://tox.im/. I made an initia