* Derek Cunningham ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > What features does this have over bbkeys that makes you want to use it?
Well, as someone pointed out to me, it uses 300k less RAM to do basically the same thing. The reason I wrote it was because I didn't need a lot of what bbkeys offered, and found it took up too much memory, and seemed to leak on top of it. (Not knocking vanRijn and x0r here. The source is fairly complicated and tracking down all memory would be difficult.) I also wanted to add some new features like chained keygrabbing but couldn't wrangle bbkeys' source. Those were the major reasons why I wrote it. Some other more aesthetic reasons I use it is that I like epist's config file better, source my puny mind could understand, and the chance to learn something about Xlib and STL. It also caches requests for atoms which saves a little bit of memory and performance for people who only use a small subset of the available atoms. In the future, I plan to add chained keygrabbing, and better config file reading and parsing. There are things it does not do. Mainly window and workspace cycling. I can't see that being added to epistrophy untill blackbox supports the WM spec. I find it silly that every bbtool that cares has to keep its own list of windows and workspaces, and when epist can request these lists, or send _BLACKBOX_CYCLE_WINDOW, then I will add that. As I said before, it simply fits my needs better. I figured it would be more productive to let it out into the world rather than sit on it, but now I think that was a mistake. > > DC > > PS: a webpage would be nice outlining this stuff. :) This was not a full release; more of a technology preview. After exams and Christmas I may make a project website, but don't count on it. I will probably just take the source and keep it in my local CVS archive, and let any intrested members bug me for it. -- Copyleft (c) 2001, Scott Moynes
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