Quoting Marc Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 09:42:39AM +0300, Ciprian Popovici wrote: > > Sadly, it seems like fbpanel still has some obscure bugs on the > > tracker. Being a lucky fellow, most of them affect my installation. > > It's a shame, since fbpanel is perhaps the best minimalist panel > > around. > > Personally, I think fspanel is, but that's just me.
Depends what you're looking for. If you want a Blackbox toolbar with added taskbar then yes. fbpanel is the alternative if you want a lightweight panel in the sense that was consacrated by Gnome and KDE. Some people may like Blackbox as a fast and easy on resources wm, but would also like a more "mainstream" environment. There's some merit to having all the environment you need in a bar at the side of the screen. Now, if only fbpanel worked right... :) Speaking of NetWM environments, I've spent some time looking for a standalone dock which would behave the way the Blackbox slit does. That is, lightweight and simply swallow any dockapp that starts, automatically. Let me tell you, you have no idea how lucky Blackbox users are and how many things you take for granted after you've used it for a while. There is no such dock out there that I could find. There is kappdock and you can also set up a KDE panel, but that is not what I'd call lightweight. Besides, they both require loading dockapps by hand and won't swallow anything automatically. kappdock can't autohide, only minimize to the notification area... bleah. More to the topic, how hard would it be to rip out the slit code from Blackbox 0.70 into a standalone program? How would one go about it? Would it require libbt? I believe it would mean doing the world a big favor, anyhow. -- Ciprian Popovici -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] List archives: http://asgardsrealm.net/lurker/splash/index.html Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
