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30 lines
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# Goals
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These are the goals that spmenu should achieve.
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- Read from file and standard input
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- spmenu should read list items from standard input, or really any file you
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can imagine.
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- dmenu compatible
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- spmenu should be compatible with all existing dmenu scripts. Maybe not
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rofi, even if it does have some features in common.
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- Customizable
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- spmenu should be customizable, when considered feasible through a libconfig
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configuration file read on startup.
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- Sort of minimal
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- While spmenu is significantly more bloated than dmenu, it should still
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be a simple program. It currently sits at ~8000 SLOC. To keep it simple
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a toolkit like GTK or QT should not be used. Cairo and Pango are used to
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draw fonts and shapes for both X and Wayland.
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- Good run launcher
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- spmenu should provide a useful $PATH run launcher, along with a .desktop
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entry run launcher. It should do this in the form of an external shell script,
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because "do one thing and do it well"
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- X and Wayland support
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- spmenu should support both X11 and Wayland natively. It should support
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wlroots-based compositors, but not necessarily GNOME or non-wlroots
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compositors.
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- No arbitrary SLOC limitation
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- suckless philosophy works well in many cases, but spmenu does not attempt
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to follow the suckless philosophy.
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