On 2006-10-30, Mark Grieveson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a program for an onscreen menu for > program choices and keyboard entries?
It should be easy to write a shell script for that, to run in an xterm... :) But, indeed, some kind of big and simple menu system for sort of kiosk use of Ion would be nice. One that would switch to a running program if there's one, and otherwise start it. Perhaps this could appear as a "sidebar" to a workspace... Actually, there is a rather simplistic tiling window manager specialised for this kind of use, but I fail to recall its name. > PS, A few centuries from now, archaeologists are going to dig up mum's > old 286, and find that it still works perfectly. They made computers > out of steel then, not plastic. Indeed. Computers today are the worst junk there is. They don't last, and they are not meant to last. People are meant to buy a new computer every two years (and destroy the planet and feed Economic Growth in the process), even if they really wouldn't need one, either because it has broken down, it can't run the latest bloatware anymore, or it can't be ugpraded, because all the interfaces have changed. > Archaeologists of the future will be studying Leisure Suit Larry for > clues about our civilization (which, frankly, is probably the most > accurate depiction there is in computer-land.) Heh. -- Tuomo
