On Thursday 07 February 2002 16:20, xOr wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 10:06:35AM -0500, Jan Schaumann wrote:
> > Derek Cunningham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > On Thu, Feb07,02 10:42, Marco Fioretti wrote:
> > > > > Head on over to
> > > > >
> > > > > http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2002-02-06-010-20-RV-DT-
> > > > >SW
> > >
> > > And then, aside from that... I'm curious... the author states this:
> > >
> > > "Fluxbox also adds a native key grabber to the base functionality it
> > > inherits from Blackbox. The key grabber gives the ability to not only
> > > handle keyboard shortcuts for common window manager commands, but it
> > > also allows sophisticated multi-key sequences to be assigned in a
> > > manner similar to
> >
> > ^^^^^^^^^^
> >
> > > Emacs."
> > >
> > > Now, considering his false statement regarding the slit, is the
> > > keygrabbing ability EXACTLY like emacs'? or what?
> >
> > ^^^^^^^^^^
> >
> > Why would you assume the keybindings are *exactly* as in Emacs, if the
> > author says they are *similar*? I haven't read the article, but from
> > what you quoted here, I can't find any false information[1].
>
> There's only 1 piece of false info in there:
>
> Window tabs are hardly the only difference, as Fluxbox provides support
> for KDE and Windowmaker dock applications. This is a little strange,
> coming from years of Blackbox use, because the lack of docked
> application support has always been one of its defining features.
Now this is something I really don't get. I took a look at the KDE patch
since I use a lot of KDE apps. It's very small and doesn't need any KDE
libraries. Afaics there's absolutely no bloat in the patch, only a feature
that some people find nice. I simply can't see why a patch like this is not
included. To say that "the lack of docked application support has always been
one of its defining features" doesn't make sense to me. Had it cost
performance or meant linking with kdelibs or something, then of course it
shouldn't be allowed. But simply saying "we feel the users shouldn't do this"
sounds stupid to me.
If I can find the time, I'll update the patch with a compile time option and
maybe a runtime option, and then send the patch to the list.
Bo.
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