Re: Comments desired regarding possible upcoming changes

2002-01-23 Thread Erik Jan Tromp
On Mon, 21 Jan 2002 02:09:28 -0800 (PST) "Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As we move forward in the code reorganization, I would like to remove > some of the precompiler cruft. > > Which brings me to the following questions: > > a) are there any OS/2 people out there using bla

Re: Comments desired regarding possible upcoming changes

2002-01-21 Thread Nexist Xenda'ths
On Monday 21 January 2002 08:39, it is widely held that Alexander Volovics wrote: > What has always surprised me with blackbox is that the 'toolbar' has > no functionality to speak of: you can switch workspaces, see the time > and see which window has the focus. > > If you do have a toolbar why n

Re: Comments desired regarding possible upcoming changes

2002-01-21 Thread Marius Nita
Let's put the toolbar in the slit and the slit in the toolbar, so we can be cool and have the first doubly-recursive FEATURE, as opposed to the lame, traditional acronyms. Yah? On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 12:53:47AM +0100, Alexander Volovics wrote: > On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 04:30:54PM -0600, Jamin W.

Re: Comments desired regarding possible upcoming changes

2002-01-21 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 04:30:54PM -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > On Mon, 2002-01-21 at 14:19, Robin Jury wrote: > > b) I always use the slit. The toolbar however, I ignore. How about any > > functionality that people want from the toolbar be put in the slit, and that > > can be placed wherever

Re: Comments desired regarding possible upcoming changes

2002-01-21 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 04:30:54PM -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > On Mon, 2002-01-21 at 14:19, Robin Jury wrote: > > b) I always use the slit. The toolbar however, I ignore. How about any > > functionality that people want from the toolbar be put in the slit, and that> > >can be placed whereve

Re: Comments desired regarding possible upcoming changes

2002-01-21 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Mon, 2002-01-21 at 16:36, Mads Martin Jørgensen wrote: > > In short, I'm for the removal of the Toolbar and functionality moved to > > the Slit. > > As long as one not would be stuck with anything unwanted in the slit. Certainly not. I didn't intend to imply that anyone would be forced, to h

Re: Comments desired regarding possible upcoming changes

2002-01-21 Thread Mads Martin Jørgensen
* Jamin W. Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [Jan 21. 2002 23:32]: > On Mon, 2002-01-21 at 14:19, Robin Jury wrote: > > b) I always use the slit. The toolbar however, I ignore. How about any > > functionality that people want from the toolbar be put in the slit, and that > > can be placed wherever? Does

RE: Comments desired regarding possible upcoming changes

2002-01-21 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Mon, 2002-01-21 at 14:19, Robin Jury wrote: > b) I always use the slit. The toolbar however, I ignore. How about any > functionality that people want from the toolbar be put in the slit, and that > can be placed wherever? Does anybody feel any strong need to have both at > the same time? I lik

Re: Comments desired regarding possible upcoming changes

2002-01-21 Thread Joe MacDonald
I've been trying to stay out of this mess since I've contributed precious little to the project so far (my estimate puts it at 0 lines of contributed and about 50 lines of code that should never see the light of day) but I really have to jump in here. > b) I always use the slit. The toolbar howev

RE: Comments desired regarding possible upcoming changes

2002-01-21 Thread Robin Jury
-Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Scott Moynes > Sent: Tuesday, 22 January 2002 9:28 a.m. > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Comments desired regarding possible upcoming changes > > > * Robin Jury ([EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Comments desired regarding possible upcoming changes

2002-01-21 Thread Marco Fioretti
On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 09:19:07 at 09:19:07AM +1300, Robin Jury wrote: > > b) I always use the slit. The toolbar however, I ignore. How about any > functionality that people want from the toolbar be put in the slit, and that > can be placed wherever? Does anybody feel any strong need to have both a

Re: Comments desired regarding possible upcoming changes

2002-01-21 Thread Scott Moynes
* Robin Jury ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > For my vote, > > a) clean the code. Of the three people in the world still using OS/2, I > doubt any are using blackbox. Your ignorance is brilliant. I am certain that you probably are an indirect user of OS/2 without even realising it. -- Copyleft (c)

RE: Comments desired regarding possible upcoming changes

2002-01-21 Thread Robin Jury
anybody feel any strong need to have both at the same time? cheers Robin > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Sean 'Shaleh' Perry > Sent: Monday, 21 January 2002 11:09 p.m. > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject

Re: Comments desired regarding possible upcoming changes

2002-01-21 Thread Marco Fioretti
On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 13:33:26 at 01:33:26PM -0500, Jan Schaumann wrote: > Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The reason I want to remove the compile time option is because working around > > all of the > > > > #ifdef SLIT or BLAH > > > > in the code is just annoying. > > Tr

Re: Comments desired regarding possible upcoming changes

2002-01-21 Thread Jan Schaumann
Jan Schaumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Um. I may be completely confused (quite possible--probability rather > > high considering nobody else has thought of this), but isn't this > > already possible by using the slit in a horizontal manner and docking > > the mentioned apps? It seems to m

Re: Comments desired regarding possible upcoming changes

2002-01-21 Thread Jan Schaumann
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The reason I want to remove the compile time option is because working around > all of the > > #ifdef SLIT or BLAH > > in the code is just annoying. True. I actually do believe that the best way would be to remove those and instead offer the

Re: Comments desired regarding possible upcoming changes

2002-01-21 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 21-Jan-2002 Derek Cunningham wrote: > On Mon, Jan21,02 09:15, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: >> I am not found of the icon on toolbar idea. It turns the toolbar into more >> of a >> panel and well, there are already plenty of those. >> >> As for the battery load idea, I like it and have considere

Re: Comments desired regarding possible upcoming changes

2002-01-21 Thread Derek Cunningham
On Mon, Jan21,02 09:15, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > I am not found of the icon on toolbar idea. It turns the toolbar into more of a > panel and well, there are already plenty of those. > > As for the battery load idea, I like it and have considered it know and then > before I became the blackbo

Re: Comments desired regarding possible upcoming changes

2002-01-21 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 21-Jan-2002 Jan Schaumann wrote: > Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> a) are there any OS/2 people out there using blackbox. I would like to >> remove >> the OS/2 cruft if possible. > > Never having used OS/2, I don't care either way, but it's an almost > philosphical quest

Re: Comments desired regarding possible upcoming changes

2002-01-21 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 21-Jan-2002 Markus Ottenbacher wrote: > Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: >> b) the slit is currently a compile time option which I think is a little >> silly. >> How many of you actually compile with the slit turned off? How many of >> those >> would care if the slit was still in the code, but onl

Re: Comments desired regarding possible upcoming changes

2002-01-21 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> > What has always surprised me with blackbox is that the 'toolbar' has > no functionality to speak of: you can switch workspaces, see the time > and see which window has the focus. > The toolbar is one of the things that makes blackbox unique. I like the very minimal and resource friendly cl

Re: Comments desired regarding possible upcoming changes

2002-01-21 Thread Jan Schaumann
Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The Toolbar I only use for the date's advanced capabilities (strftime) > > over bbdate. If the Toolbar could be a compile-time option[1], I'd leave > > it out and adjust bbdate to support strftime and construct my own > > Toolbar-lookalike fr

Re: Comments desired regarding possible upcoming changes

2002-01-21 Thread Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper
On Mon, 2002-01-21 at 10:41, Jan Schaumann wrote: > Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > a) are there any OS/2 people out there using blackbox. I would like to remove > > the OS/2 cruft if possible. > > Never having used OS/2, I don't care either way, but it's an almost > philo

Re: Comments desired regarding possible upcoming changes

2002-01-21 Thread Jan Schaumann
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > a) are there any OS/2 people out there using blackbox. I would like to remove > the OS/2 cruft if possible. Never having used OS/2, I don't care either way, but it's an almost philosphical question: should support for any Operating System be dro

Re: Comments desired regarding possible upcoming changes

2002-01-21 Thread Markus Ottenbacher
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > b) the slit is currently a compile time option which I think is a little silly. > How many of you actually compile with the slit turned off? How many of those > would care if the slit was still in the code, but only active if an app was > actually in it? In other wo

Re: Comments desired regarding possible upcoming changes

2002-01-21 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 02:09:28AM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > As we move forward in the code reorganization, I would like to remove some of > the precompiler cruft. > Which brings me to the following questions: > a) are there any OS/2 people out there using blackbox. I would like to

Re: Comments desired regarding possible upcoming changes

2002-01-21 Thread Joe MacDonald
In message: Comments desired regarding possible upcoming changes (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) on 21/01/2002 (Mon 02:09) Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > a) are there any OS/2 people out there using blackbox. I would like > to remove the OS/2 cruft if possible. Nope, but if I were,

Re: Comments desired regarding possible upcoming changes

2002-01-21 Thread Speedy
On Mon, 21 Jan 2002 02:09:28 -0800 (PST) "Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > a) are there any OS/2 people out there using blackbox. I would like to remove > the OS/2 cruft if possible. Never tried it. And from what I heard, I never want to. Happy with Linux. > b) the slit is c

Re: Comments desired regarding possible upcoming changes

2002-01-21 Thread Marco
> On Mon, 21 Jan 2002 02:09:28 -0800 (PST) > "Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > a) are there any OS/2 people out there using blackbox. I would like > > to remove the OS/2 cruft if possible. No, thanks. > > > b) the slit is currently a compile time option which I think is a >

Re: Comments desired regarding possible upcoming changes

2002-01-21 Thread Wilbert Berendsen
On Mon, 21 Jan 2002 02:09:28 -0800 (PST) "Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As we move forward in the code reorganization, I would like to > remove some of the precompiler cruft. > > Which brings me to the following questions: > > a) are there any OS/2 people out there using black

Comments desired regarding possible upcoming changes

2002-01-21 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
As we move forward in the code reorganization, I would like to remove some of the precompiler cruft. Which brings me to the following questions: a) are there any OS/2 people out there using blackbox. I would like to remove the OS/2 cruft if possible. b) the slit is currently a compile time opt