Some feedback

[Joachim Breitner]

Hi,

Am Montag, den 17.06.2013, 04:36 +0100 schrieb Waldir Pimenta:

> Sorry, I didn't phrase it well. I meant if you know of any software
> project page (yours or not) that you particularly like and from which
> we could borrow some ideas :)

http://info-beamer.org/ looks nice, but feel free do to what you like.

> Almost. I adapted that slightly to use window titles rather than just
> the program name. It would be nice if the output didn't have 
> underscores, but apart from that it works well! Thanks :) 

You’re welcome.
 
>         I like to know that the background program uses minimal resources;
>         appending a few bytes to a file is good there. If the possibilities you
>         talk about are about other people writing code to use the data, then a
>         nicer dumping format can serve the same purpose.
>         
>         As more more analysis in arbtt-stats (or arbtt-graph or whatever): There
>         are endless possibilities, and so little time :-). I’d prefer to
>         implement stuff with a concrete usecase, preferably also with a little
>         outline (e.g. a sketch of an graph or of intended output) and some
>         discussion if it is not possibly covered by exiting features, or can
>         maybe simplified or generalized.
> 
> 
> Responding to both paragraphs above: Yes, I meant the (imho)
> improvements to both the binary storage and the text-based dumping
> format as ways to enable others to build cool stuff on top of arbtt.
> Lots of people are comfortable with other programming languages and
> this would expand the arbtt ecosystem beyond Haskell-proficient
> programmers :) I think arbtt can certainly be enhanced, but I don't
> feel it really needs many more features on its own. I like the way it
> does a few things very well (capturing the data and storing it
> efficiently is what I personally appreciate the most), and making it
> more interoperable with other tools would, I believe, greatly expand
> its potential (besides bringing it even closer to the Unix philosophy 
> ideal ;) )

agreed, but that need would be served by a JSON-dump-format in
arbtt-dump, wouldn’t it?

Greetings,
Joachim

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