Hello guys,
How is the progress on the 2012 road map?
Are you on target to realize the goals set out in the 12.08 milestone?
August - Release 12.08 Tiled window manager and user-interface concept Intel wireless driver Persistent file system Hosting genode.org website on Genode Multi-processor support on NOVA, Pistachio, and Fiasco.OC
Regards
Hi Robert,
we plan to release the Genode version 12.08 next week. As usual, the release will be accompanied with comprehensive release notes describing all the changes and the rationale behind them.
Are you on target to realize the goals set out in the 12.08 milestone?
August - Release 12.08 Tiled window manager and user-interface concept Intel wireless driver Persistent file system Hosting genode.org website on Genode Multi-processor support on NOVA, Pistachio, and Fiasco.OC
Not all of those points made it into the current release. In particular, we haven't worked on the first two items. On the other hand, there is plenty of new stuff that was not originally part of our road map. For example extensive support for OMAP4, a new base platform, and vastly enhanced support for the NOVA hypervisor.
Which of the topics is of particular interest for you?
BTW, the best way to track the progress of the project is certainly our issue tracker. See https://github.com/genodelabs/genode/issues
Cheers Norman
Hello Norman,
Thank you for the update. I am looking to reading the release notes for the new release. I'm sure they will be interesting as usual :).
I'm interested in the first and last points. Will you be working on a new window manager that is specific to genode or will you be using an existing window manager?
Regards
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 4:52 AM, Norman Feske <norman.feske@...1...>wrote:
Hi Robert,
we plan to release the Genode version 12.08 next week. As usual, the release will be accompanied with comprehensive release notes describing all the changes and the rationale behind them.
Are you on target to realize the goals set out in the 12.08 milestone?
August - Release 12.08 Tiled window manager and user-interface concept Intel wireless driver Persistent file system Hosting genode.org website on Genode Multi-processor support on NOVA, Pistachio, and Fiasco.OC
Not all of those points made it into the current release. In particular, we haven't worked on the first two items. On the other hand, there is plenty of new stuff that was not originally part of our road map. For example extensive support for OMAP4, a new base platform, and vastly enhanced support for the NOVA hypervisor.
Which of the topics is of particular interest for you?
BTW, the best way to track the progress of the project is certainly our issue tracker. See https://github.com/genodelabs/genode/issues
Cheers Norman
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Hi Robert,
I'm interested in the first and last points. Will you be working on a new window manager that is specific to genode or will you be using an existing window manager?
the picture I have in mind facilitates the use of Genode's unique concepts rather than inheriting an existing solution. It is not actually a single window manager with a specific feature set but rather a set of small components that can be combined and reconfigured at runtime. Genode's dynamic configuration concept will be a key piece of the puzzle.
Generally speaking, I think that there no single best way to approach window management. Different users have different needs. It would be great if the tool box would be powerful enough to "emulate" a wide range of usage paradigms. My personal needs are rather spartan. On Linux, I am using only a small feature set of Notion (a fork of Ion3), which is a static tiled window manager. So this will be the base line for me personally.
I have pretty clear ideas about some of the involved components. But since not all pieces of the design have fallen into place yet, I have not started to manifest the ideas in the form of code.
That said, even though I have specific ideas and opinions on this topic, I don't want to discourage anyone from pursing different ideas. For example, on our challenges page, we have listed the topic of porting Wayland over to Genode. Maybe you have different ideas? It is surely worth trying out multiple approaches. This would be just great as long as those strings of developments agree to support the same basic Genode interfaces such as Framebuffer::Session, Input::Session, and Terminal::Session.
What are your specific goals and preferences with regard to window management?
Cheers Norman
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