What patches are avail? I'm new on this list, and I missed them :) I don't
wanna be left out of having a patched BB :)
On Monday 23 July 2001 11:15 am, Gregory J. Barlow wrote:
> 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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Chris Bacott
