Re: bbmenu? [Was: Re: new NETWM key grabber]

2002-07-14 Thread Kit O'Connell
I was just thinking about this. It could even be made to display the same menu as BB would natively. This way you wouldn't have to worry about having entries in one menu but not the other. Basically just a small app that reads the same menu source(s) as BB the same way. Then people could

bbmenu? [Was: Re: new NETWM key grabber]

2002-07-13 Thread mattias/spikboll
On Sat, 13 Jul 2002 09:40:43 -0700 (PDT) Sean 'Shaleh' Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It would still be nice to have Blackbox support showing the menu in response to a bbkey event. It would also be nice to have Balckbox support navigation of the menu via the arrow keys. There seems

RE: bbmenu? [Was: Re: new NETWM key grabber]

2002-07-13 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
Why not take out the menu and call it bbmenu? It could have its own keybindings or be incorporated with bbkeys somehow. Doing this you would have to let people decide for themself (probably in .blackboxrc) what a right-click on the background should start. This may be a bad idea, I don't

Re: bbmenu? [Was: Re: new NETWM key grabber]

2002-07-13 Thread Ben Jansens
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 13 July 2002 1:18 pm, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: Why not take out the menu and call it bbmenu? It could have its own keybindings or be incorporated with bbkeys somehow. Doing this you would have to let people decide for themself

Re: bbmenu? [Was: Re: new NETWM key grabber]

2002-07-13 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
That is in fact how oroborus (an even more minimalistic window manager than blackbox) has always functioned. It provides no menus internally. sawfish too, and others. Personally, I believe a wm should be usable without 3rd party additions. Not 100% how we'd like, but usable.

Re: bbmenu? [Was: Re: new NETWM key grabber]

2002-07-13 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Sat, 13 Jul 2002 11:18:05 -0700 (PDT) Sean 'Shaleh' Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Once the bblib is available the menu code from blackbox will be public. Someone could easily implement this idea then. I was just thinking about this. It could even be made to display the same menu as BB

Re: bbmenu? [Was: Re: new NETWM key grabber]

2002-07-13 Thread Ben Jansens
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 13 July 2002 1:50 pm, Jamin W. Collins wrote: On Sat, 13 Jul 2002 11:18:05 -0700 (PDT) Sean 'Shaleh' Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Once the bblib is available the menu code from blackbox will be public. Someone could easily

Re: bbmenu? [Was: Re: new NETWM key grabber]

2002-07-13 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Sat, 13 Jul 2002 14:01:15 -0500 Ben Jansens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thats a lot of extra overhead for a minimalitic world. :\ It would be preferable if blackbox extensions were added as hooks for menu interaction. Even just for popup. Didn't say it was a perfect solution. However, if

Re: bbmenu? [Was: Re: new NETWM key grabber]

2002-07-13 Thread Ben Jansens
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 13 July 2002 2:07 pm, Jamin W. Collins wrote: On Sat, 13 Jul 2002 14:01:15 -0500 Ben Jansens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thats a lot of extra overhead for a minimalitic world. :\ It would be preferable if blackbox extensions were