Re: Life, universe, and ION3

[Roy Lanek]

> > Icon based, floating style application launcher.

> Yuck. Well, for a touch screen kiosk sort of thing, a sort of
> sidebar application launcher could be nice...

Is it a sardonic, or a "WC graffiti"-style (to borrow from your
post) :) like answer? If yes, then you can stop reading, false
alarm.

Icon stuffed sidebars/menus can be seen with Fluxbox, the window
manager. (Fluxbox which now has even ... *rounded menu corners*.)
Is that what you mean?

The point: Fluxbox illustrates well how a passable
[retrospectively observing] window manager originally, Blackbox,
has been transformed into a pig:

500K for Blackbox [stripped], versus 1,2-1.3M [stripped] or
more for Fluxbox, I don't remember ... I don't use Fluxbox,
have merely tried it for a couple of day. (And never mind the
UNAVOIDABLE errors [discover how many of these a guy such Wietse
Venema admits he is still making when he programs with maximal
care]--a percent of them involving security of course--per, say,
every thousand lines of code that constitute a program ... don't
forget that things do NOT worsen linearly, by surplus.)

Fluxbox adds zero, or little, SIGNIFICANT features compared
to Blackbox: *post factum* window tabbing can be functionally
included/simulated more intelligently via mrxvt, an rxvt based
terminal emulator. (mrxvt, 184K [stripped], adds the only good
thing Fluxbox has and Blackbox doesn't: tabbing.)

Said that, window managers such Ion or wmii are the ones
to go eventually--and the sooner the better.

Icons, a dozen or two ones [airports, restaurants, etc.]
excepted, truly belong to the *creme* of the crap--sugar
candies--that has delayed developing in depth and re-discovering
a much more intelligent way to interact with programs in general
by keeping people attracted to it. No icons please.

Cheers,

/Roy Lanek

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