Hi.
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 12:21:11PM -0600, Andy Kopciuch wrote:
>
> As for the newbies ease of use. IMO blackbox is very specialized WM, and not
> for a linux newbie. They would sit around on their hands for 2 hours trying
> to figure out how to put a shortcut on the desktop. I think bb caters to the
> crowd of linux professionals, sys-admins, and of course hackers, but not to
> general purpose new linux folk.
I d'ont know for whom BB is for, but I know why it is used in my
company. First of all we are not linux users, we work on Sparc/Solaris
7. Second, we want to use a small and fast WM because we are about 20
users on the same box with all the X servers running on it ; a much
more sophisticated Desktop (CDE, Gnome or KDE) uses too much
ressources. So we give a try to BB, I installed it a few weeks ago and
users were asked to move from gnome or CDE to BB. Some did it, some
not. The last ones stay to their old environment because of the, hmm,
"complicated" configuration procedure of BB. None are "linux
professionals, sys-admins [or] hackers", but their needs are
fullfilled with BB, so they (hmm, most of them) accept to use it.
So here are few thoughts:
* It is a bad idea to select extension (bbkeys, ...) at compile time,
for for a site install the needs must vary from on user to another.
* It would be nice to have a simple configuration tool, with a BB
look to select the tools (bbkeys, bbmail, bbpager on my site) and to
configure them. Especially I think that the configuration of BB must
be moved in another app : this will light BB a little more.
* I second the root menu key short cut request for bbkeys. I second
the panel woorkspace and task menus request.
Nicolas.
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