On Mon, 23 Jul 2001, Derek Cunningham wrote:
> Here, let me sum it up, before this turns into a flame:
>
> New features: No.
>
> and then they'll start calling you a creep.
>
> Or wait, maybe they call the features creeps... no no, I'm pretty sure
> they call you a creep, and tell you they don't like features...
> hrmm... oh well, i'm sure discussion will invariably insue, and it'll
> be exactly like the 15 other discussions that have happened. :)
>
> Let's just hope this doesn't turn into a feature war over flame creep!
Feature creep and feature refinement are two entirely different things.
Adding X to blackbox, where X is something from another window manager
people "absolutely must have", is feature creep. Making existing window
manager fuctionality better is not. And if you have your own code that
implements what you want, its a very different matter.
> > I have done (and I continue to do) some little improvements
> > to Blackbox, such as
> > - Button{1,3} with modifier ALT on window still works when
> > {Num,Caps,Scroll}Lock are on/off
I know bbkeys does this for key bindings, it might be worthwhile to
include this. Personally, I like that blackbox has this behavior, it
gives you an easy way to quickly get rid of bindings temporarily.
> > - the ability to resize windows from the left if the user click on the
> > left side of the window
> > and from the right if the user click on the right side (actually it
> > always resize the window
> > from the right)
Problem is, what if you want to use the frame to move the window? I do
this a lot. I think two resize handles are enough, though thats me.
You should post patches to this list. Maybe they won't get included in
the main source, but it would be of interest to many people, since a lot
of us run patched source. (Unless some sort of miraculous change occurs, I
won't ever be running unpatched blackbox again. See previous messages re:
keybindings)
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