> > 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.

I think Kyle is thinking you'll need bbkeys running in order to run
BlackBox, because
this is what Ben 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.

Perhaps Ben meant that bbkeys will pass the message to bbcycle or some other
handler 
app?

Craig

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