> > I'm not sure if you're aware or not but it seems the iconbar that > people are requesting does not actually display "icons", but rather > "iconified windows". Its basically adding buttons to the toolbar as > windows are iconified, and removing them as they're uniconified, and > then changing the button event handling code in the toolbar. > > I'm slightly for the iconbar actually in this form, it adds no clutter > since its in a part of teh screen that already has something displayed > in it, but that i really don't use (the toolbar's "curret window" > section). And it only slightly slows down the iconify/uniconify process. > Hardly bogging down the window manager. > > Not really fighting to get this into the blackbox code tree, just trying > to make sure you know what it is being requested. >
Yes, I have seen the screen shots of fluxbox. Thanks for checking in. the toolbar in blackbox is NOT meant to be like the panels in GNOME or KDE. Once we have netwm support you can run either of those and get all of the icon handling you want.
