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Openbox: A lightweight window manager (Linux.com)
Openbox: A lightweight window manager (Linux.com)
Posted Feb 3, 2006 2:49 UTC (Fri) by k8to (subscriber, #15413)In reply to: Openbox: A lightweight window manager (Linux.com) by drag
Parent article: Openbox: A lightweight window manager (Linux.com)
I looked at the article and saw the XML configfile and cringed. It looks like the took the clean readable blackbox configfiles and obscured them in xml cruft.
Here are some things that look really unpleasant to me. Why do menu items have an id=NUM field? Why do actions have a name but entries have a label? Do you edit this stuff directly or is there some config tool that makes this more bearable?
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Openbox: A lightweight window manager (Linux.com)
Posted Feb 3, 2006 16:10 UTC (Fri) by mikachu (subscriber, #5333) [Link]
Menu items have id's because you can reference the id's from other places, most notably the config file entry that opens the menu needs the id. It's not hard to edit by hand but there are editors (obmenu.sf.net)