Minutes - 3rd April
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Progress since last week
- We have a preliminary draft of the draft for the report
- Vaughan has made a lot of progress with the prototype (including a live demo)
- Mytchel set up Lua (currently just for font configuration)
- Mytchel set up and assigned some tasks on GitHub
- Ryan started tinkering with the source code, trying to implement pane resizing
Discussion about features
- We had another discussion about which features we actually wanted for version 1.0.
- We decided against including regular expressions, terminal capabilities, backup files and all the other features previously described as non-essential
- Features for version 1:
- moveable tabs, tiles
- usable, editable command bar
- folder view
- works on ubuntu, openBSD and fedora
- basic undo, but not special undo
- ability to open and edit text files
- The true sexiness of the interface might be put on hold for now
Other discussions
- Make vs Meson
- Meson is fast and pretty (sexy interface), but not necessarily as universal as make
- Meson might make testing easier
- I don’t think we came to a firm conclusion on this yet
- We talked about how the user should resizing panes
- mouse (small bars to click on) or keyboard (a little unusual)
- We talked about setting up a testing framework with Unity
- We talked a bit about what we were going to put in the report
Tasks for next week
- Hannah and Ryan are going to work on the report (due 14 April)
- Vaughan is going to work on the prototype (improving tab dragging)
- Hannah was going to look at font config
- Ryan was going to look at pane resizing some more
- Mytchel was going to keep doing his thing, which I didn’t write down apparently