Re: will stop maintaining Dutch NLS and manpage after 0.65 (was

2002-07-22 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
I would like to enquire about what sort of responsibility, and what the requirements are for maintaining the blackbox manpage. I would love to assist Blackbox develop, and considering I don't have the programming knowledge (at the moment), this is a good place to start I believe. One

RE: Success: Building 0.65.0beta3 with MIPSpro

2002-07-22 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 22-Jul-2002 Brian Hechinger wrote: it works. yay!!! ok, here's what i needed to do. first of all, set the following environmental variables: CC=/usr/bin/cc CXX=/usr/bin/CC CXXFLAGS='-LANG:std' or for more optimization (what i used on my R10K Octane): CFLAGS='-O2

RE: will stop maintaining Dutch NLS and manpage after 0.65 (was

2002-07-22 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
I will update for 0.65 on Monday! But after the summer I'll be starting a freesoftware project under KDE, so i'll switch (for some time) to KDE as default desktop (to learn more about it). enjoy (-: To make all my spare programming time available to the new project next year I would

Re: will stop maintaining Dutch NLS and manpage after 0.65 (was

2002-07-22 Thread Wilbert Berendsen
On Monday 22 July 2002 10:38, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: I wish Blackbox and you all the best, and I'll really come back to Blackbox after some time!! Wilbert let me publically thank you for your effort. You revitalized the nls support in blackbox and your docs have really helped people

Re: Success: Building 0.65.0beta3 with MIPSpro

2002-07-22 Thread Brian Hechinger
On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 01:35:53AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: only CXXFLAGS is used. yeah, i wasn't too careful with my cut and paste, since those are straight out of my .profile. good call. I will look over your patch and get back to you. there are really only two changes that

[eloli@hotmail.com: Blackbox web site]

2002-07-22 Thread Jan Schaumann
Somebody sent this to me; thought you guys might find it interesting. -- A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. ---BeginMessage--- In this page: http://blackboxwm.sourceforge.net/ you write:

Re: [eloli@hotmail.com: Blackbox web site]

2002-07-22 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Mon, 22 Jul 2002 10:25:20 -0400 Jan Schaumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Somebody sent this to me; thought you guys might find it interesting. From: Eugenia Loli-Queru [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Blackbox web site In this page: http://blackboxwm.sourceforge.net/ you write: M$ Windows

Re: [eloli@hotmail.com: Blackbox web site]

2002-07-22 Thread Derek Cunningham
On Mon, Jul22,02 09:34, Jamin W. Collins wrote: In this page: http://blackboxwm.sourceforge.net/ you write: M$ Windows (all varieties) I do not know the problem you might have with Microsoft sir, but this is down right unprofessional and filthy to reffer to Microsoft as M$, ESPECIALLY

Re: Success: Building 0.65.0beta3 with MIPSpro

2002-07-22 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
I will look over your patch and get back to you. there are really only two changes that were made, first, '#include cstdlib' was removed since MIPSpro doesn't use it, and second, std::abs() doesn't exist on MIPSpro so i had to use the abs() in the C math routines, and needed to add

Re: a shot in the dark

2002-07-22 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 22-Jul-2002 Roy Wood wrote: I did not bother trying to dig through the thousands of messages (-: Yesterday evening I received a mail from one of Sun's people asking me to please test under 1.4.1 beta they just released. Downloaded it this morning. I also forwarded them the URL that Roy

Re: [eloli@hotmail.com: Blackbox web site]

2002-07-22 Thread Mike
I don't know what the big deal is. I'd just leave it, who cares, not worth the time/thought/effort. If people are going to get all freaked out over something like this, let 'em. That first reply was supposed to be sent back to [EMAIL PROTECTED], but I forgot to change the To:, :/, then I

Re: [eloli@hotmail.com: Blackbox web site]

2002-07-22 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 22-Jul-2002 Mike wrote: I don't know what the big deal is. I'd just leave it, who cares, not worth the time/thought/effort. If people are going to get all freaked out over something like this, let 'em. Cygwin is a more accurate depiction anyway so that is what the webpage now says.

Re: [eloli@hotmail.com: Blackbox web site]

2002-07-22 Thread Jan Schaumann
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I always thought referring to the company as M$ was like referring to Un*x, it just avoided the explicit name and the need to pay someone (-: The difference is that M$ contains a judgement. Un*x or it's variants are neutral. It's intended to

Re: [eloli@hotmail.com: Blackbox web site]

2002-07-22 Thread Jan Schaumann
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 22-Jul-2002 Jan Schaumann wrote: Somebody sent this to me; thought you guys might find it interesting. how is it you received this? You happen to be the first address on the screen shots page so if she chose that link that shows a certain

Re: [eloli@hotmail.com: Blackbox web site]

2002-07-22 Thread Mr. Brigham Young
--- Jan Schaumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sean 'Shaleh' Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SNIP The difference is that M$ contains a judgement. Un*x or it's variants are neutral. It's intended to summarize the various flavors of UNIX-like operating systems with one word. I've started using

Re: [eloli@hotmail.com: Blackbox web site]

2002-07-22 Thread Derek Cunningham
On Mon, Jul22,02 09:34, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: You might want to add a short mailto-link at the bottom of the index-page. yeah, I suppose I should. [EMAIL PROTECTED]? DC -- Derek Cunningham [EMAIL PROTECTED] Human beings act intelligently only after they have exhausted the

Re: will stop maintaining Dutch NLS and manpage after 0.65 (was

2002-07-22 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
Hmm, ok, count me in then. My first language is Dutch and my second is English, so I don't really expect any problems with it. I'll look at the current Dutch manuals to see what style they're written in (e.g. formal or plain Dutch) and I'll just write the new ones just like it. If you

Re: [eloli@hotmail.com: Blackbox web site]

2002-07-22 Thread astralflight6
In mho.. People are simply way too sensitive. I like to think of the internet as the Wild West in a way. People say whatever they want, and it's up to us to realize that we have every right to disagree, but *no* right to censor the views of others. In fact, I actually enjoy this

Re: [eloli@hotmail.com: Blackbox web site]

2002-07-22 Thread Jan Schaumann
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: People are simply way too sensitive. I like to think of the internet as the Wild West in a way. People say whatever they want, and it's up to us to realize that we have every right to disagree, but *no* right to censor the views of others. This has nothing to do

FAQ for Brigham Young

2002-07-22 Thread Mr. Brigham Young
Full name Robert Brigham Young II, I go by my middle name but actually answer to both fairly reliably depending on the voice. Feel free to call me Brig. To answer once and for all the inevitable questions 1. Yes I am LDS. 2. No I am not a Wacko. 3. I currently have 0 wives. 4. I have never had

Re: intent to remove Top and Bottom Center option from slit

2002-07-22 Thread Cary Mathews
Umm, hi. I've been using BB for a while, really enjoy the minimal feel. I just upgraded from 0.62.1 to 0.65.x (from sourceforge) and had some confusion over terminology. I had assumed that the slit was the bar at the bottom of the screen which had the workspace name in it and the time. But from

Re: [eloli@hotmail.com: Blackbox web site]

2002-07-22 Thread Mr. Brigham Young
--- Jan Schaumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mr. Brigham Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've started using Nix because it seems more inclusive. How's Nix (or *nix) more inclusive than Un*x? None of these includes Linux, HP UX, AIX, IRIX, *BSD, Solaris etc. ? ;-) The same thing Un*x

Re: intent to remove Top and Bottom Center option from slit

2002-07-22 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
The toolbar is the horizontal ba at bottom of screen with workspace names and date (for example). Right click on it: it should say Toolbar. For other definition, see What is the Slit? at http://www.reedmedia.net/misc/blackbox/faq.html Jeremy C. Reed

custom menus on a per-style basis.

2002-07-22 Thread Benjamin Bunck
Is it possible to associate a custom menu to a particular style? Ben

RE: custom menus on a per-style basis.

2002-07-22 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 22-Jul-2002 Benjamin Bunck wrote: Is it possible to associate a custom menu to a particular style? Ben No, sorry. The style is simply a layer of paint it does not affect the underlying structure.

Re: custom menus on a per-style basis.

2002-07-22 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 04:32:06PM -0500, Benjamin Bunck wrote: Is it possible to associate a custom menu to a particular style? Well, not directly, but you could make the rootCommand in the style a shell script that would alter the menu file. Blackbox is smart enough to recognize the change

RFC: blackbox and bsetroot manpages. Speak now or ...

2002-07-22 Thread Mr. Brigham Young
Well I am glad to see everyone is excited about manpages LOL, Before I get started in earnest, let me know if there is anything that you think needs coverage. PLEASE reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so everyone gets a chance to read your comments. Shaleh has made the following comments regarding the

Re: custom menus on a per-style basis.

2002-07-22 Thread Benjamin Bunck
On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, Marc Wilson wrote: On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 04:32:06PM -0500, Benjamin Bunck wrote: Is it possible to associate a custom menu to a particular style? Well, not directly, but you could make the rootCommand in the style a shell script that would alter the menu file.