On Sun, Mar 31, 2002 at 11:13:03AM -0500, dorphell wrote: > I have been using blackbox since its early versions, and I've persuaded > many friends and co-workers to give it a try. However, something I > noticed is that the people who didn't like it said it lacked a simple > taskbar, that's all, a taskbar.
And this is a *good* thing, that it doesn't have a "taskbar". What's it supposed to be good for, besides making blackbox look like Windows? > They said they would have dumped their primary window manager for > blackbox if it had a simple taskbar. Whoopee. This is not about market share. This is about a group of people using the environment that best suits THEM. It sounds like it may not suit YOU. > I have tried fluxbox which has a blunt taskbar and a taskbar add-on which > somone has made, they both weren't very good. Indeed. The whole concept doesn't have much to recommend it. Neither does fluxbox. > I and numerous others would much prefer a simple taskbar, a little wider > than the current one that can be used just as gnome, kde, IceWM or most > other window managers. Then you should use an environment that PROVIDES such things. That's why there's this wonderful thing called "choice". By the way, "most" window managers do not provide such a thing. In fact, aside from IceWM, I'm not sure I can think of one that does. KDE and Gnome (which are not window managers) do it with separate applications. > It doesn't have to have a "start" button, maybe just a Blackbox logo, it > doesn't need the extra icons/buttons.i What I hear is "it doesn't have to look like the Windows one, but it should be there anyway." Pfui. Who wants to imitate Windows? The idea with blackbox is to be BETTER. > This doesn't seem too hard to add and I guarantee you that it will > enlarge the blackbox community. It's not. There are patches out there to add the functionality you want. There's a whole rip-off of blackbox (fluxbox) that does what you want. If so, you should use them. That's why they're there. The idea isn't to turn all window managers into the same thing, the idea is to provide choice. -- Marc Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.cox.net/msw
