[Lunar-commits] CVS: moonbase/x11-wm/ion-2 DEPENDS, NONE, 1.1 DETAILS, NONE, 1.1

[Auke Kok]

Update of /var/cvs/lunar/moonbase/x11-wm/ion-2
In directory dbguin.lunar-linux.org:/tmp/cvs-serv421/x11-wm/ion-2

Added Files:
	DEPENDS DETAILS 
Log Message:
Adding ion-2 and dependency lua.


--- NEW FILE: DEPENDS ---
depends lua

--- NEW FILE: DETAILS ---
          MODULE=ion-2
         VERSION=20040407
          SOURCE=$MODULE-$VERSION.tar.gz
      SOURCE_URL=http://modeemi.fi/~tuomov/ion/dl/$SOURCE
      SOURCE_VFY=md5:f27efbd06ab1c8ac26918bef6ed029e7
SOURCE_DIRECTORY=$BUILD_DIRECTORY/$MODULE-$VERSION
        WEB_SITE=http://modeemi.fi/~tuomov/ion/
         ENTERED=20040429
         UPDATED=20040429
           SHORT="tiling tabbed window manager for keyboard users"
cat << EOF
Ion was written as an experiment on a different kind of window
management model. It tries to address the navigation problem
by dividing the screen into mutually non-overlapping frames that
take up the whole screen. Big displays have so much space that this
should be convenient and smaller displays couldn't show more than one
window at a time anyway. The frame layout is, of course, dynamic and
different on each workspace. Given the organised tree based instead
of an unorganised coordinate-based frame layout, moving between the
frames can be conveniently done from the keyboard. As in PWM, the
frames may have multiple clients attached, each indicated with a tab.

While this model makes using well-designed and well-behaving programs a
joy, some applications, obviously, don't work well in this model. These
are in particular those applications that do not conform to the ICCCM
(Inter-Client Communications Conventions Manual; the standard on how
WM:s and applications should communicate) and expect a particular
window management model. Badly-designed applications with multiple
top-level windows that affect a single document are also not
particularly well suited to the Ion model and should be fixed,
although can be occasionally kludged to be compatible.
EOF