On Tue, 9 Oct 2012 13:14:56 +0200 Ruud Dozijn <rdoz...@hotmail.com> said:
> > hello all, > > I am new to this list. I am a fvwm user and I was looking if enlightenment is > a good replacement. I have been doing this for the past week, but I am not > convinced. > > There are so many open ends and questions that are unanswered in the > documentation that I am unsure. > > Because I have a feeling I probably have to put a bit more energy into it, I > ask some questions here, if it is all right by the list. > > - is it sensible to use e16 directly as window manager or do I have to use an > extra layer on top of it? it can run by itself - i havent used e16 for many years though > - is e16 still used/ supported? its still used by people and supported by kim. (nice one kim!) > - e16 seems to support convenient user configurable menu's whereas e17 seems > to lack it. In e17, I found among the possible key bindings an action > labelled 'Show menu....' Is there some documentation on it, or can someone > explain how it can be used? you'll need to be more specific here. what do you want to do with menus? e17 has 6 menus it knows about right now. main, favorites, all, clients, lost_clients and configuration. by default left mouse on desktop is configured to show the main menu and middle mouse the clients menu. you can reconfigure bindings (mouse and keyboard) to show any of these named menus. there are pre-defined actions for showing favorites, all, clients and main menu. the window menu too actually but its context-dependent. the favorites menu is configurable by the user - it shows the list of favorite apps to launch. you can create "apps" that run any command you like - create a new desktop file. there's configu dialogs in the apps menu under personal app launchers. you can configure the favorite applications list from the "favorite applications" gui dialog (select what is in it and the order). if you truly want a custom nested menu - then the system applications menu is for that. it allows u to select which menu to use - you can create your own but its an xml file u have to make and its a pain - almost no one needs such a thing so its manual - no worse than fvwm. this can define a list of desktop files like favorites as well as categories and more. > thanks for helping me, Rudd > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Don't let slow site performance ruin your business. Deploy New Relic APM > Deploy New Relic app performance management and know exactly > what is happening inside your Ruby, Python, PHP, Java, and .NET app > Try New Relic at no cost today and get our sweet Data Nerd shirt too! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > enlightenment-users mailing list > enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users > -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) ras...@rasterman.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Don't let slow site performance ruin your business. Deploy New Relic APM Deploy New Relic app performance management and know exactly what is happening inside your Ruby, Python, PHP, Java, and .NET app Try New Relic at no cost today and get our sweet Data Nerd shirt too! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic-dev2dev _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
