On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 10:59:11 at 10:59:11AM -0500, Imad wrote:
> keyboard again). With the power of bbkeys, I -- and others -- need
> neither the toolbar *nor* the slit.
>
It depends from what ones want.
Icons on root window or panel are a poor substitute for keyboard
shortcuts: they don't really add functionality, just help memory (or
so people think.....) and are easier to see. In this sense, hotkeys
via bbkeys or whatever do really make toolbar/slit/panel/call it as
you want/ useless.
It is completely different when you want to monitor continuously some
some function/performance in your machine (time, new mail, connection
speed, cpu usage..) This is a totally different functionality, one
that can only happen (if you need it of course) with some rectangle in
the screen looking like some space ship control deck.
If you need a control deck, one is enough, and this has nothing
whatsoever to do with hotkeys. Changing workspaces/windows is the
"hotkey" category of things. It really doesn't need the slit/toolbar
unless you like it.
bbtools belong to the "control deck/car dashboard" functionality:
monitoring, altogether different from hotkeys. That requires a
rectangle always on screen, regardless of its name. See also my
message titled "again on toolbar/slit redundancy".
Thank you for your time,
Marco
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Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right
Salvor Hardin , "Foundation"
