Re: website - _basic_ design available

2002-01-02 Thread Rajat Arya
> if less information was presented on the main page (and I do understand > that this is a work in progress) with the various sections linked off > that page; then I would be very happy with it. > I will yank off some content tomorrow and present a gleaned version - I'll steal the perl coding pr

Re: 0.62.0-pre1 - some problems.

2002-01-02 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 02-Jan-2002 Alexandra Walford wrote: > Originally, this message was to mention this: in this new version, if > restart is chosen from the menu and windows are in multiple desktops and > iconified, after the restart, all windows are now on the first desktop > and uniconified. Has anyone else ex

Re: website - _basic_ design available

2002-01-02 Thread John Kennison
I'm going to cast my vote for at the moment: http://furt.com/blackbox/index.html -- However, I do like the menu-less design of the site @ http://speed.seas.upenn.edu/~rarya/bb/index.html if less information was presented on the main page (and I do understand that this is a work in progress) wi

0.62.0-pre1 - some problems.

2002-01-02 Thread Alexandra Walford
Originally, this message was to mention this: in this new version, if restart is chosen from the menu and windows are in multiple desktops and iconified, after the restart, all windows are now on the first desktop and uniconified. Has anyone else experienced this? I'd very much like for new vers

Re: How minimal is minimal?

2002-01-02 Thread jerrold poh
> Personally I much prefer being able to immediately see which > apps/windows I have iconized on the toolbar and to open them again > from the toolbar then to have to pop up the "workspaces menu" every > time just to see what I have iconized and to open them from there. Try doing this. Open up t

Re: website - _basic_ design available

2002-01-02 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 02-Jan-2002 xOr wrote: > On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 09:59:30PM -0500, Rajat Arya wrote: >> in the theme of simplicity - here's a one page stab at the blackbox site. >> >> i'm a big fan of one page sites, easy to maintain. >> static html - nothing cleaner. >> >> http://speed.seas.upenn.edu/~rarya

Re: website - _basic_ design available

2002-01-02 Thread xOr
On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 09:59:30PM -0500, Rajat Arya wrote: > in the theme of simplicity - here's a one page stab at the blackbox site. > > i'm a big fan of one page sites, easy to maintain. > static html - nothing cleaner. > > http://speed.seas.upenn.edu/~rarya/bb/index.html > > -Raj. So far,

Re: sloppy focus + click to focus?

2002-01-02 Thread xOr
On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 07:35:41PM +0100, M.G. Houtman wrote: > On Wednesday 02 January 2002 18:56, you wrote: > > I know that the option to enable both of them contradicts one another (as > > far as I can tell), but nevertheless, is it possible? here's what I'm > > thinking: > > > > you have mul

Re: sloppy focus + click to focus?

2002-01-02 Thread M.G. Houtman
On Wednesday 02 January 2002 18:56, you wrote: > I know that the option to enable both of them contradicts one another (as > far as I can tell), but nevertheless, is it possible? here's what I'm > thinking: > > you have multiple overlapping xterms. if you just want to type in one, > that's being

Re: sloppy focus + click to focus?

2002-01-02 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Wed, 2002-01-02 at 11:56, Lev Lvovsky wrote: > you have multiple overlapping xterms. if you just want to type in one, > that's being partially covered by another, you just move your mouse over > to it...if however, you want to raise it, instead of clicking on the > border, you just click anywh

sloppy focus + click to focus?

2002-01-02 Thread Lev Lvovsky
I know that the option to enable both of them contradicts one another (as far as I can tell), but nevertheless, is it possible? here's what I'm thinking: you have multiple overlapping xterms. if you just want to type in one, that's being partially covered by another, you just move your mouse ov

Re: How minimal is minimal?

2002-01-02 Thread Lev Lvovsky
On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, xOr wrote: > I'm not sure if you're aware or not but it seems the iconbar that > people are requesting does not actually display "icons", but rather > "iconified windows". Its basically adding buttons to the toolbar as > windows are iconified, and removing them as they're unic

Re: How minimal is minimal?

2002-01-02 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 10:14:01AM -0600, xOr wrote: > On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 08:01:56AM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > On 02-Jan-2002 Alexander Volovics wrote: > > > Personally I much prefer being able to immediately see which apps/windows > > > I have iconized on the toolbar and to ope

Re: How minimal is minimal?

2002-01-02 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> > I'm not sure if you're aware or not but it seems the iconbar that > people are requesting does not actually display "icons", but rather > "iconified windows". Its basically adding buttons to the toolbar as > windows are iconified, and removing them as they're uniconified, and > then changing

Re: How minimal is minimal?

2002-01-02 Thread xOr
On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 08:01:56AM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > On 02-Jan-2002 Alexander Volovics wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I have been using bb-0.61 on my laptop now for some time. > > I have tried it with and without the 'blackbox-taskbar-patches' > > of Ignacio Thayer. > > > > Personal

Re: How minimal is minimal?

2002-01-02 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 02-Jan-2002 Alexander Volovics wrote: > Hello, > > I have been using bb-0.61 on my laptop now for some time. > I have tried it with and without the 'blackbox-taskbar-patches' > of Ignacio Thayer. > > Personally I much prefer being able to immediately see which apps/windows > I have iconized o

Re: compiling bbapm-0.0.1

2002-01-02 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 02-Jan-2002 Alexander Volovics wrote: > Hello, > > There are of course other non-GUI ways to get info about battery > load when using a laptop. > > But is is nice to have a icon and or toolbar graphical display. > So I tried to compile bbapm-0.0.1 (on RH 7.2 using gcc-2.96-98). > > Make giv

Re: How minimal is minimal?

2002-01-02 Thread John Kennison
On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, Alexander Volovics wrote: > On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 11:55:42PM +1030, John Kennison wrote: > > > P.S - I personally like the using the workspaces menu, it allows me to > > minimise something and then open it up in a completely different > > workspace & keeps my taskbar clean.

Re: How minimal is minimal?

2002-01-02 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 11:55:42PM +1030, John Kennison wrote: > P.S - I personally like the using the workspaces menu, it allows me to > minimise something and then open it up in a completely different > workspace & keeps my taskbar clean. Then what do you need a taskbar for anyway? It is actu

Re: compiling bbapm-0.0.1

2002-01-02 Thread John Kennison
While I can make any promises about anything in the very near future. I plan to take a look at bbapm and seeing if anything can be done to make it useful once again. -- Regards, John Kennison Bachelor of Business (Management Information Systems) On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, Alexander Volovics wrote: >

Re: compiling bbapm-0.0.1

2002-01-02 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 06:48:00AM -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > On Wed, 2002-01-02 at 06:42, Alexander Volovics wrote: > > There are of course other non-GUI ways to get info about battery > > load when using a laptop. > > > > But is is nice to have a icon and or toolbar graphical display.

Re: How minimal is minimal?

2002-01-02 Thread John Kennison
I agree that waiting for patches to catch up, especially those that are not constantly maintained is a pain in the ass. Especially for those of us that do not have the technical knowledge or time to fix it. However, I think what seperates blackbox from the crowds is its VERY minimalist nature. I

Re: compiling bbapm-0.0.1

2002-01-02 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Wed, 2002-01-02 at 06:42, Alexander Volovics wrote: > There are of course other non-GUI ways to get info about battery > load when using a laptop. > > But is is nice to have a icon and or toolbar graphical display. > So I tried to compile bbapm-0.0.1 (on RH 7.2 using gcc-2.96-98). > > Make g

compiling bbapm-0.0.1

2002-01-02 Thread Alexander Volovics
Hello, There are of course other non-GUI ways to get info about battery load when using a laptop. But is is nice to have a icon and or toolbar graphical display. So I tried to compile bbapm-0.0.1 (on RH 7.2 using gcc-2.96-98). Make gives the following "errors": "/usr/local/bbapm001/share/bbto

How minimal is minimal?

2002-01-02 Thread Alexander Volovics
Hello, I have been using bb-0.61 on my laptop now for some time. I have tried it with and without the 'blackbox-taskbar-patches' of Ignacio Thayer. Personally I much prefer being able to immediately see which apps/windows I have iconized on the toolbar and to open them again from the toolbar the