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List:       enlightenment-devel
Subject:    Re: IPC Command Format
From:       "Mandrake (Geoff Harrison)" <mandrake () mandrake ! net>
Date:       1999-07-31 23:11:58
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On Fri, Jul 30, 1999 at 05:41:50PM +0200, Knut Neumann wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> after my ipc background command patch got added (whohoo) I started working
> on and iconbox command today. Now the problem is that I am still not
> thinking the , the format is really comfortable. The actual format, that
> Troy suggested is ok so far:
> 
> 	iconbox - shows all iconbboxes
> 	iconbox <name> - deletes iconbox
> 	iconbox <name> <value> - creates iconbox
> 	iconbox <name> ? - queries iconbxo settings
> 
> Still it is not clear what input/output of the last two shold look like. You
> can have a look at the background command to see what the first
> implementation of that stuff looks like.
> 
> So today I had the following idea of how the format could work:
> 
> 	iconbox <name> ? <setting1> <setting2> .. <setting n>
> 
> would provide the following output:
> 
> 	iconbox ONE ref_count (none)
> 		orientation	vertical
> 		scrollbar_side	right
> 		nobg		off

sounds fine to me.

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