Re: [dwm] dmenu navigation with a lot of items.

2006-12-12 Thread Sander van Dijk
On 12/12/06, Christian Garbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm. I don't really understand how the 'pita' is changed with paged scrolling: Either I know where in the list of 1000 items I want to look (if I know that, I can type at least the first character) or I don't - in which case I have to

Re: [dwm] dmenu navigation with a lot of items.

2006-12-12 Thread Christian Garbs
On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 09:17:42AM +0100, Sander van Dijk wrote: Depends on what you use dmenu for. If you use it solely for selecting items from an alphabetically sorted list, home/end and pageup/down may not add much (although they will still speed up browsing quite a bit), but dmenu's use

Re: [dwm] dmenu navigation with a lot of items.

2006-12-12 Thread Jack J. Woehr
On Dec 12, 2006, at 11:22 AM, Christian Garbs wrote: On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 09:17:42AM +0100, Sander van Dijk wrote: Depends on what you use dmenu for. If you use it solely for selecting items from an alphabetically sorted list Nested menus are good. -- Jack J. Woehr Director of

[dwm] dmenu navigation with a lot of items.

2006-12-11 Thread Sander van Dijk
Hi, I love dmenu, but one thing has been bothering me for a while: lists with a lot of items are hard to navigate. With a short list, you can just browse through it with left/right; with a long list you can use the filter to speed up navigation. This is only true however when you already know