On Sun, May 21, 2006 at 05:42:01PM +0200, Daniel Schmitz wrote: > So if you don't like Dockapps, what about displaying bitmaps(or icons) > in the status bar additionally to the simple text-labels. It would be a
I doubt the usefulness of those tiny tray icons in KDE. They are hard to click, because they are too small. They don't tell me much, because an icon has different meanings in different cultures, and to render them, KDE has several 100kSLOC dependencies. Even assumed one would only support xpm's, they don't add much benefit. In contrast to this, text tells you exactly what a label is about and the label-based colorization allow you to differentiate warnings, from informational purposes - if you're going to monitor several stuff. > kind of primitive dockapp-system, which -as I think- would require > minimum code-rewriting. And when already modifying this, wouldn't it be Dennis wrote a proof-of-concept for writing XPMs to the data file a label, but we dropped the idea. It was approx. 200 lines of additional code, with too less benefit. > nice to add a litle eye-candy (like colour-gradients, > bg-image-transparency, like other window-managers have it) to all > window-bars and frames? I think it would make wmii look a lot less > "geeklike". One wmii paradigm is 'lesser is more'. An elegant desktop is done with simplicity and clarity in mind. Those clunky window managers with gradients might look cooler to a windows user, but we don't concentrate on the look, we concentrate on the _use_. If you want a sexy desktop, go for OSX or E17 ;) If you want a usable desktop, go for wmii/larswm/ion3. Regards, -- Anselm R. Garbe ><>< www.ebrag.de ><>< GPG key: 0D73F361 _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://wmii.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/wmii
