For whatever it's worth (which is not much since I don't contribute much of anything to this community anyway), I hardly touch the mouse and wouldn't even notice if mouse functionality was removed from the bar. I do like having the bar managed by DWM though. The fewer external programs I have to bring in to remain functional the better.
On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 11:42 AM, Nick <suckless-...@njw.me.uk> wrote: > Quoth Anselm R Garbe: > > -> is there anyone who uses the mouse functionality of the dwm bar > > right now? Could you live without it? > > I do use it sometimes, but could live without it. No strong > preferences. > > > I barely use the mouse for the dwm bar and would be in favour for > > removing the bar altogether from dwm. Instead I would output the > > current dwm state to stdout which could be used by a different program > > like sbar for input. > > Really? I like that the bar is managed by dwm, 'cos I trust dwm, and > it seems like a reasonably OK place to do such drawing. So long as > there was a widely used, reasonable way of doing things, which ends > up looking and working like dwm currently does, I don't really mind. > > > But I wouldn't add an interface to dwm to change > > the tags through X props or some other command interface (like stdin > > processing) to allow other programs to amend the dwm tags. Good old > > key commands would be enough for me. > > Yes, good; sensible chap. > > Good to hear from you again Anselm. > > Nick > >