On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 09:18:57AM +0100, Marco wrote:
> > Jamin wrote:
> > > all it's really needed is*ONE* only way to puth a small, cpu light,
> > > unobtrusive dashboard with aall the tools {time, link speed, cpu
> > > usage, new mail, all the bbthings...} inside it?
> >
> > Does GKrellM not meet these requirements?
> >
>
> Functionally, yes, but as pointed out by somebody else, GKrellM inside
> blackbox looks like an elephant into a Church, and since we already have
> bbtools, do we need anything else but *one* little place to put them in?
>
> Now, most of the arguments in favour of the toolbar are:
> 1) I use many workspaces, and need something to toggle
> and tell me which one I'm in.
> 2) Time of the day looks nicer in toolbar
> 3) I need to read which is the active window
>
> To this I reply: what is a bbtool? If it is a small box on the screen doing
>something useful, and the related code, then all items above
> belong to this category. There is no difference whatsoever between the
> "workspace" above and bbmail, bbppp, etc...
>
> "I need workspace assistance" is very different from "I *need* the
> toolbar because *today* workspace assistance is there"
>
> If so, let's move the corresponding code to "bbworkspace", "bbwindow",
> etc, and then everybody places whatever combination he likes in one
> single "toolslit".
>
> Or not?
>
> Marco
>
I haven't replied to any of these messages just yet but I'd just like to
say that I like the functionality given by the toolbar--it's a place I
can look and see the time and the currently highlighted window--and I
wouldn't like to have a single toolbar-slit combination. I like the
toolbar where it is and I like the slit being somewhere other than the
toolbar. I don't think it would be right to have licq in the
toolbar-slit along with the date and current workspace. I don't think
that would fit well.
Jason
