Some feedback

[Waldir Pimenta]

Hi all,

As I mentioned in my previous message, here are a few ideas/questions that
popped up as I used arbtt recently, about which I'd like your opinions:

   1. It would be nice to have an index page at
   http://darcs.nomeata.de/arbtt/ so that it would work as the main home
   page for the project, instead of
   http://darcs.nomeata.de/arbtt/doc/users_guide/. If this idea is
   supported by others, I'd be willing to make such a page, including some
   nice design :)
   2. Some window titles aren’t decoded properly with arbtt-dump; Special
   characters appear as escaped sequences -- for instance, \226\128\162,
   (which corresponds to a bullet, • in html), \226\132\162 (which
   appears at the end of the name of skype windows) and \226\128\148 (which is
   the character between the document title and the filename in the evince pdf
   reader). Is this done on purpose, or could arbtt-dump output the
   corresponding unicode characters directly?
   3. arbtt-dump seems to use True/False for indicating which window is the
   top one. Since the output of arbtt-dump is plain text anyway, would it be a
   good idea to use a more explicit marker, such as an Active/Inactive string?
   Or, if the format that the command outputs is a Haskell data format (say,
   like JSON), maybe formatting that part as a named variable then, like e.g.
   { active=True }, could work for the same effect (making the output
   self-explanatory).
   4. Speaking of JSON, it would be nice to have an option to dump it as
   JSON! It is already a quite similar format, and would make parsing by other
   programs much more accessible (I believe). Thoughts?
   5. Could arbtt-dump have some options for filtering how many entries to
   dump? e.g. last hour, last day, last n entries, etc.

Cheers,

Waldir
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