Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
>
> On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 03:57:55PM -0400, Gregory J. Barlow wrote:
> > Support for something like this would be a legitimate
> > feature to add in my opinion, though probably with key presses in addition
> > to mouse actions.
>
> the statement I heard on key bindings for menus was:
> "this is not in the wm or kde spec, bb will not support items not in either
> spec". In other words, no bb specific functionality.
>
Well, that was actually targetted to the question of fully keyboard
navigable menus, and stems from the fact that it would probably be
damn messy unless some keybindings were directly handled by blackbox.
Anyway, I'll think about it some more when I look into widgetizing
the BaseMenu class.
If all you want to do is make the menus appear, but navigate them
as usual with the mouse, bbkeys could probably be hacked to send a
synthetic button press events to the current/root window, which
would require absolutely zero changes to blackbox. Mind you, getting
rid of the windows can be a little more complicated...
> What I would like to see is blackboxrc have a setting for "menu on button X",
> "window menu on button Y".
There is something to be said for uniformity in interface... once upon a
time I had to accounts, one which had it's WM set up so that left-click
on root brought up the root menu and one on which right-click did. Drove
the people who would occasionally use the systems insane because they
never new which button to use.
Jeff Raven
