openbox on fedora-release-9-2.

[John Summerfield]

Scott Robbins wrote:
> On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 11:34:40PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
> 
>> Scott Robbins wrote:
>>> On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 05:08:35PM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>>>> John Summerfield wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> If openbox (etc) is doing what it ought, that's fine. It seems very 
>>>>> strange to me, and not something I care  a lot about:-)
> 
> 
>>> Openbox is fine, there are no bugs there that I've noticed. It comes
>>> with a very small default menu, which may or may not consist of items
>>> the user has installed. It has some default config files which are where
>> Menu items that don't work seem like bugs to me. Especially when one of 
>> them appears to be its configuration tool.
> 
> Heh, I see your point.  However, in this case, I believe it would be an
> Openbox bug rather than Fedora's.  Anyway, that openbox config thing

Either way, it bugzilla.redhat.com would be the place to report it. 
Actually, I'd lay the task of fixing that at Fedora's door; upstream 
can't be expected to know what browsers and email clients are installed, 
that needs to be set by the packager. Unless standards at 
freedesktop.org say otherwise.

> doesn't do very much, I think it gives a choice of themes.  Keys and
> menu items are done by hand-editing xml files.

I was thinking about that overnight. I've never seen the point of 
hand-edited xml, and you yourself highlighted why: it's hard to 
maintain. For exchanging data between machines, that's different.
> 
> There is a fine line between bug and feature--for example, Openbox
> deliberately dropped the toolbar when upgrading from 2 to 3 (or perhaps
> somewhere in the 3.x series.)  I'd consider it a regression, but others
> think it's a good thing.  <shrug> 

There's been a fair bit of fuss and bother over things vanished from 
kde4 compared with 3.5. There's a lot of popular stuff I do not use, and 
a lot relatively unpopular stuff I do, and where there are choices I 
tend to exercise several of them. I like toolbars, and have at times had 
several of them. On OS/2 we had a launchpad, a bit like wharf in 
X-Windows. I had two of those. (one of its nice features was that one 
could close it. If it was closed, or merely hidden, a double-click on 
the desktop would bring it to the top).

> 
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