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On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, Marco Fioretti wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I read with great pleasure that *there is* finally something that:
> configures your style file...
> your keybindings
> can configure bbpager, bbmail, bbapm, bbweather, bbpal,
> bbwibble, and
> MORE!
>
> All in one place, and I can understand why now "no more development
> will be done on bbkeysconf or toolbox". However, I'm confused (and
> without bbconf) because it's written in Qt. After spending some year
> to find the fastest and leanest/minimalist wm around, and some days
> last week to build a fully functional system with the minimum possible
> usage of rpms, disk space, ram and cpu, (read "no kde/gnome here"),
> should I now install a tiny thing like the Qt libraries just to
> configure the more minimalist wm I could find?
>
> This is not an anti kde thing, finding it using gtk would have been
> the same: couldn't it have been using some smaller lib, or (excepted
> styles, of course) run happily within an xterm?
> Isn't this a contradiction?
Yes, it could have been done as a terminal application.. but that doesn't
make for great usability for something like this. It could also be done
with straight Xlib, but then we'd still eb trying to write text in the
window, and not "done" the application. The only other alternatives to QT
are GTK and Motif/LeffTif i think? Either of these is a library the same
way, and QT is the best widget set for linux. QT is too often thought of
as being KDE. It is not KDE and has nothing to do with KDE except for the
fact that KDE uses it. Simply put, yes, BlackBox is the minimalist window
manger. And we all love that. A Window Manager should be as small and and
fast as possible. This isn't a window manager, and we focused more on
making a good, usable application that didnt take 50 years to write and
that looks good. And if you are not interested in installing QT, you
always have the option to use vi to edit your configurations for blackbox.
See? BlackBox is minimal. You can configure everything you'd ever want for
it with nothing but a shell. This is just a more pleasant alternative for
some people.
</rant>
xOr
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I am damn unsatisfied to be killed in this way.
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