On 01-May-2002 Kit O'Connell wrote: > A few things I have noted: > > o The slit appears behind certain windows, despite being labelled Always > On Top. The easiest application to see this with is bbconf. I think I have > seen it with other windows but it is not easily reproducible. >
have not witnessed this, will look into it. > o When I use the program 'wmcliphist' to keep a clipboard buffer, I have > found that the slit does not auto-hide properly after I bring up the > applet's menu to access a past clipboard item. It does not close when the > mouse leaves the slit, but instead stays open until I return the pointer > to the slit and then remove it again. > the hiding requires X's mouse enter/leave events to work. The menu may be masking those. > o I am using a fairly small resolution (800 x 600). If I view a workspace > where one of the applications has a very long title, (such as those xmms > produces), the specific workspace submenu covers up the main workspace > menu. This means it is very hard to pick other workspaces since they are > buried under the submenu. > one of the reasons I started using blackbox and one of main machines is a 233mmx 800x600 vaio laptop. The solution to this is called "elliding". Basically we take "string of lots of letters" and output "string ... ters" or something similar. I plan to add this for various reasons and in various places. However it is tabled until 0.70 timeframe.
