On 28 March 2010 20:14, Connor Lane Smith <c...@lubutu.com> wrote: > On 28 March 2010 19:28, Antoni Grzymala <ant...@chopin.edu.pl> wrote: >> This might be getting off topic, but has the possibility of filename >> completion in the argument field been considered or written > > The problem with this idea is that it adds rather a lot of complexity > to a program intended to simply be a menu. dwm simply uses dmenu_run, > a shell script wrapper for the more general dmenu. To add things like > filename tab completion would undermine the simplicity and generality > of the idea. It could be done in a separate patch, of course, but I'm > not sure that's entirely a good idea. > > I was thinking of perhaps trying a dmenu-derivative which spawns a > shell to interact with, becoming an extremely simple one-line 'dterm'. > Could be interesting, anyway.
As said earlier, dmenu will be simplified until next release, The cursor stuff etc does not belong to dmenu, same for mouse support. I think stuff like that could be achieved with special purpose apps instead, like pointed out in earlier discussions a while ago. The success of suckless software is doing less and rather removing features than adding new. Cheers Anselm
