Re: Craig's "Rainikkusu" site

[turnbull@example.com (Stephen J. Turnbull)]

>>>>> "Shige" == Shige Abe <sabe@example.com> writes:

    Shige> We have DnD for our Wharf (Dock), I heard that you can drag
    Shige> filenames into the icon, and the application corresponding
    Shige> to the icon will fire up using data from the file.

Yes, I can see how you'd do that; you give the file manager (or the
window manager) the ability to interpret calls like "exec mule %s",
where %s gets the filename substituted in.  However, I don't want to
fire up a new mule every time I edit a new file.
 
    Shige> Nope, our mailbox checking program is like 60k, with zero
    Shige> code from xbiff or xmailbox.  Its based on code from our
    Shige> clock program.  I'm a bit confused, you mention that xbiff
    Shige> is 4mb total size?!  I just looked at it and its the binary
    Shige> is only 14k, does it really use up 580kb resident?

Well, I'm not sure how all this works.  I suspect that my 60kB xbiff
binary is unstripped.  Since it's dynamically linked, a lot of the
580kB is going to be shared library.  I have no idea where all the 4MB 
is going.
  
    Shige> All our little trivlets use zero code from the
    Shige> corresponding fvwm one, except stuff like pager and xload
    Shige> is unmodified.

Aha.
  
    Shige> ASMail box be completely configured to lauch a program for
    Shige> the left and right mouse buttons, it can automatically run
    Shige> a program upon reception of mail.  Alot of other things are
    Shige> all configurable as well. I also hacked my version so it'll
    Shige> show the actual number of unread mail.
  
    Shige> Is there anything else xbiff does?

xbiff doesn't do very much, it just tells you that a file has changed.
It's not a very featureful program.  xlbiff (I think it's called) is
much nicer but requires mh to be properly installed so I haven't done
it yet.  xlbiff does most of what you mention, plus if you click on
the icon, a window givnig a summary listing pops up, if you click on a
line, you get a "head" on the message body.  I don't think it supports
autolaunch of the mail program although since it's a companion to mh
it probably does (then again, maybe not, most users would use xmh I
guess).

Steve

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                           Stephen John Turnbull
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