On 03/23/2013 12:24 AM, Carlos R. Mafra wrote: > On Fri, 22 Mar 2013 at 23:22:48 +0100, Daniel Déchelotte wrote: >> >> Drawers are like the dock and the clip in that they store arbitrary >> appicons. [ snip ] >> it is configurable through WPrefs.app. > > What's the difference w.r.t to the dockapp called wmdrawer? > I cut away the text portions which apparently obscured the most interesting content: "it is configurable through WPrefs.app".
I must admit that i only learned by this thread that i omitted wmdrawer from inclusion in wmlive up until now, and this will be remedied for the next release. A big turn off of wmdrawer is that it needs to be configured manually using a text editor. While this might not really be an issue for people like us, personally i would rather like to be able using it without requiring the abilities of people like us. This is not really end user friendly, and i would much prefer to see my friends and neighbors use it without (exaggerating a bit:) first having gone through basic sysadmin training. In fact, i was rather disappointed when starting up wmdrawer for the first time, as it doesn't even create a first simple preconfiguration file in the users home directory at first execution. While this might be considered a lack of the Debian package, i consider this to be a half breeded application from the point of view of a non sysadmin user. If the added drawer funcionality would improve upon this usability omission in such a decisive way as to provide configurability via WPrefs, i would be absolutely delighted by its addtition to wmaker. (I am currently in limited operation mode due to a very nasty RSI issue affecting my right shoulder, thus typing this with my left hand only. For this reason i was not able yet to bother applying these patches and try out the viability of the WPrefs configuration on my own. So i don't know if this is just a switch to toggle drawers on/off, or whether this actually enables full configuration of the drawers. Pardon for that if my messsage should have only produced pointless noise!) Best regards, Paul -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [email protected].
