Gerrit Hoetzel wrote: >Why are you using that integrated blackbox menu, at all? >Many people on this list want keyboard navigation, popup on key, ... > > Well, if you ask 10 different people how they usually work with their desktop/X environment, you are likely to get 10 different answers. It's simply a feature that would suit my needs very well(and perhaps other people's needs as well). So it couldn't hurt to post a request.
>Personally, I only use the blackbox menu to shutdown blackbox (and even >this could be accomplished with a 'killall blackbox'). > >Why don't you use other means of starting an app? >For my personal use I wrote a small gtk-app, which pops up (using bbkeys) >and offers a list of programs among which I can choose a program to >start. I hit return, the menu shuts down and the program is started. > > I bet it is simpler to implement the blackbox keyboard menu popup than write a dedicated launch application. Why would I want to reinvent the wheel when the very nice blackbox menu already exists ? >One could develope another bbx app, which does about that and reads the >default blackbox menuFile. > Hmm... Why ? That's what the blackbox menu is there for :). I would consider this overkill I like my blackbox menu =)
