On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 10:14:01AM -0600, xOr wrote: > On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 08:01:56AM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> > On 02-Jan-2002 Alexander Volovics wrote: > > > Personally I much prefer being able to immediately see which apps/windows > > > I have iconized on the toolbar and to open them again from the toolbar > > > then to have to pop up the "workspaces menu" every time just to see > > > what I have iconized and to open them from there. > > this has been requested twice on the blackbox feature request page > > (sf.net/projects/blackboxwm). Read my comments there please. > > To summarize Blackbox is NOT about icons. It supports them as minimally as > > possible because it has to do so. Another options is for there to be an > > icon pager similar to bbpager. It is possible now and will be even easier > > when the bb lib and NET WM spec is supported. > 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. I was just going to reply to Shaleh when I received your mail. Sorry if I expressed myself badly. I am not interested in 'icons' at all. I should indeed have stated that I would like to see the option to add a button to the toolbar when windows are iconified (and a row of buttons when more windows are iconified). And then the option to open the window by clicking on this button (or with a keypress). This is more than enough functionality. As you state, and as I mentioned in another post, the toolbar is available. It does not add extra clutter (and actually it hardly has any functionality (a pity)). If this could be achieved with minimal code bloat and minimal slowdown I for one would be very appreciative. And maybe even a small menu could pop up to allow: open, close, kill, shade, etc. Alexander
