François Revol

@npyl Those kind of layers tend to never be finished because of all the complexity. Also, some things tend to be near impossible to translate between APIs. One such thing...

Using a toolkit would be an option but again, the usage pattern in conky is quite specific with desktop placement, and I don't think it's properly implemented in most toolkits.

I mean, putting an app's window on the desktop is a corner case that is probably not supported in most toolkits because it is usually very system-specific, and not used...

Ok, I had a try at cleaning up the mess. I already managed to decouple the HTTP stuff.

I think I almost got it for X11 in conky.cc except for the event loop, which is quite involved.

Btw, Haiku is again part of the Google Code-In contest, so if we get the X11 cleanup done we can have someone working on the Haiku port (if I don't...

Well, supporting GNOME will require some creativity, but not much more than to support Haiku, which will require Tracker (the file manager which handles the desktop) to load ourselves as...

More explicitly: it could as well render a PNG in the process, and have a stub gnome-shell extension refresh it from whatever IPC is used these days.

Well I still intend to get this work merged someday, but each time I look at it I have to rebase over and spend hours integrating changes that happened since...

So, I'll have a try at rebasing #664 once again, hopefully for the last time, so we can get this merged. Looking at pending PRs only #955 touches the same...