[GTALUG] Re-implementing xbattbar in Python

[Giles Orr]

On Tue, 14 Jan 2020 at 11:15, Lennart Sorensen
<lsorense at csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 12, 2020 at 10:53:16AM -0500, Giles Orr via talk wrote:
> > That's not the worst of it: I thought "why did he use 'perlcompat'
> > just for 'die' and 'getopts'?"  So I replaced those commands with the
> > Python equivalents and removed the library.  Only to discover that
> > "x11utils" requires "perlcompat".  Seriously?  And "pip3" doesn't even
> > know it's a dependency so you have to install it by hand.  Kinda
> > unimpressive.
>
> x11utils and perlcompat did appear like they were by the same author,
> and I guess they are.
>
> Seems like they are modules written by a perl fan that is having issues
> getting used to python.  Looks like the same person did x11utils,
> perlcompat, xpymon, xpywm, xpylog and a few other things.

Heh - a Window Manager written in Python I didn't know about.
Excellent: I've added it to my list of WMs.

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Giles
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