actually, this is something that I'd thought about coding myself, and as luck
would have it, MrFab (good to see you again, btw, buddy) just sent me a patch
to move windows with keystrokes around the screen the other day. So if I have
time between work, family, and moving, I'll try to get a new feature-enhanced
version of bbkeys out within the next couple of weeks.... Cheers!!
On Monday 11 December 2000 12:20, Linus Kendall sauntered into my coffee shop
and said:
> Hmm, I agree with you that making hard-coded assumptions is a badbadbad
> and should be avoided. I think that we can do without the
> keypress-to-send-to-thisorthat-workspace, but next/prev I think is
> useful.
>
> Further if we are going to make assumptions, who does really use more
> than 10-12 workspaces, I rarely use more than 4-5, except possibly
> for storing log monitors.
>
> I feel that the only thing that blackbox misses (hmm, okay I'm
> refering to bbkeys, I count it as a part of the bb i-face)
> is the ability to control windows further.
> Moving is of course the optional, I would love to be able to
> do moving with arrow keys (or whatever I chose) while coding
> or writing. (Okay, so I -know- that it has been discussed before)
>
> //Linus
>
> On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 11:11:19PM -0500, Jason Kasper wrote:
> >Harumph. Yes, I'm reading. The problem with this (and anything that
> >involves workspaces in general) is that at some point you have to make
> >some assumptions. First off, to do "push this window to the
> >next/previous workspace" is no problem at all. Just a bit of code.
> >BUT. The second you get into the far more useful feature of "push this
> >window to workspace #N", you have to make an assumption about what the
> >upper bound on N is. As bbkeys stands right now, there are keygrabs for
> >workspaces 1-12 (and there's been some murmurings that that's not
> >enough). I have no problem in adding code to push windows around from
> >workspaces 1 to 12 if that's what people want. But what I'm not
> >interested at all in is adding code that makes too many assumptions or
> >that relies too much on additional application-use.
> >
> >Such as "I use bbpager in a 4x12 matrix and therefore, I want bbkeys to
> >jump from workspace 4 to workspace 8 when I press <alt+down>," or "my
> >bbpager configuration looks like a 2x20 matrix and when I press
> ><alt+shift+control+left> I want my window to go from workspace 2 to
> >workspace 8."
> >
> >So. You have to ask yourself one question. Do I feel lucky? No, wait,
> >you have to ask yourself a different question.... First, a show of
> >responses to how many people honestly care about this feature of pushing
> >windows to next/prev workspace and to a specific workspace? To my
> >count, it seems that the count is up to the large number of 2. Second,
> >what's the consensus around the list on the upper bounds of workspaces?
> >I asked this once before and got absolutely no response.
> >
> >And furthermore, bah humbug. =:) cheers....
> >
> >* After finishing his most recent algebra assignment,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) did break forth in song on
12/10/00 at 03:52 and proclaim in a loud and joyful melody:
> >> Well, I don't necessarily see this as feature creep. This seems to be a
> >> needed feature in bbkeys. vanRijn, if he's reading, you might consider
> >> adding this. I don't post very much on here so time to go back into
> >> hiding. >=-)
> >>
> >> Skatters
> >
> >--
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> >Jason Kasper (vanRijn)
> >Systems Engineer
> >bash$ :(){ :|:&};:
> >VORFA
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