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Re: RFS: tinywm - Ridiculously tiny window manager



Hi , 

On Sat, 16 Apr 2005 12:40:19 +0900
Junichi Uekawa <dancer@netfort.gr.jp> wrote:

> Hi,
> My comments against your description:
> 
> Description: Ridiculously tiny window manager
>  TinyWM is a ridiculously tiny window manager implemented
>  in nearly as few lines of C as possible, without being
>  obfuscated or entirely useless. It allows you to move,
>  resize, focus (sloppy), and raise windows -- that's it!
>  TinyWM's main purpose is to serve as a quick example of some
>  window manager programming basics.
>  And this is likely to be able to use it as a window manager of a
>  embedded system.
> 
> 
> 1, I would not want to have a relative term like 'ridiculously'
> 2, the first line is just a repetition
> 3, the source code is not what the user will directly see.
> 
> 
> I suggest the following
> Description: Tiny Window Manager
>  TinyWM is a small and simple window manager with small 
>  memory footprint, useful in embedded systems.
>  .
>  Features window move, resize, sloppy focus and raise.
>  .
>  Due to the simplicity, the source code in C and python 
>  can be used for reference in Window Manager programming basics.
> 
> 
> 
> Could l10n-english folks proofread my description?
> 
>
 
Thank you for this comment . 
I thought that word "ridiculously" was undesirable too.
I will adopt Description which you suggested.

> 
> BTW, I was really surprised that it was really so small.
> $ wc -l tinywm.c
> 58 tinywm.c
> 

I also think so . 


regards,
 Iwamatsu


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