On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 05:01:55PM -0400, Kyle Donaldson ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Ben Jansens wrote:
> >
> > I propose that instead of blackbox handling the window cycling
> > call from bbkeys (it should still internally handle the toolbar
> > one), it instead passes it to the bbcycle application. This
> > application could cycle windows in any fashion seen fit, classic
> > style, KDE style, or any style devised at a later date.
>
> Hmm... I thought that Blackbox was not supposed to be like other WM's or
> desktop environments....
Er, when I click on a title bar, the window raises. Hey, that's like,
well, everything. And when I left-click on the root window -- a menu!
And a hierarchical one!
Blackbox is like a /lot/ of window managers (in my case, it's a happy
medium between twm and windowmaker). I think the design principle is
to take features because they're good, useful features, as compared to
taking them /only/ because other window managers use them.
> The downside to your idea is that it would cause Blackbox to depend on
> another application, which pretty much defeats the purpose of minimalism.
Huh? Depending on other applications has been a design principle of
Blackbox for some time, especially from .5x to .6x where all of the
keybindings were moved out of the core into bbkeys. That you don't
have to run bbkeys and bbpager and bbappconf and the hypothetical
bbcycle is what /makes/ it minimalist.
-Rich
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