Alternative Client

[theTrav]

At one stage pacho had me considering using swing's JDesktop classes to group all the windows, but personally I prefer the ability to arrange my desktop to view other app windows as well, like xchat and my browser.

[loftar]

At one stage pacho had me considering using swing's JDesktop classes to group all the windows, but personally I prefer the ability to arrange my desktop to view other app windows as well, like xchat and my browser.

While I agree in many aspects, I can at least let you know that your client, for that reason, doesn't interact very well with the window manager I'm using (StumpWM), which has made it a bit hard for me to try it out properly. In large parts, I blame StumpWM (because it could be extended in many ways to interact better with such programs), but there are many programs that use windows in a bit too overlapping-window-centric ways (the Gimp is another of those), which does make it hard to experiment with new window management paradigms, which is something I'm not too fond of. Freedom to tinker is something I always try to protect. :)

[theTrav]

run it in a VM

[loftar]

run it in a VM

Hehe, in that case I would run it in either Xnest or a separate X session, you know. VMs are very overrated, IMNSHO. ;)

[kimya]

i would really like an easier way of running this client. like pacho did it, that was easy...

[eql]

its not hard. just long.
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[eql]

Yes, I've considered the same thing myself. It's just that it's UI work, and I don't particularly like that.

ahahaha yeah i knew as i was typing it that you didnt like UI work ;]
but i guess we can expect something of that sort in the future?

[loftar]

but i guess we can expect something of that sort in the future?

Yes, most likely.

[theTrav]

i would really like an easier way of running this client. like pacho did it, that was easy...

heheh, yes I'll probably do that. Pacho and I speak to each other about our modded clients every now and again. Pacho picked up the final pieces to his jnlp puzzle from my own failed attemtps.

As soon as I defeat the github caching system I'll post an easy link for you

[kimya]

i would really like an easier way of running this client. like pacho did it, that was easy...

heheh, yes I'll probably do that. Pacho and I speak to each other about our modded clients every now and again. Pacho picked up the final pieces to his jnlp puzzle from my own failed attemtps.

As soon as I defeat the github caching system I'll post an easy link for you

cheers, appreciate it