Hello,
You could fit a lot more readable icons on a vertical toolbar if they were all aligned horizontally along with the workspace name, clock, etc. It is hard to read them as it stands without craning your neck, but my real concern is space. Compared to having them all scrunched together to the point where no words are readable in a horizontal toolbar, having icons stacked horizontally one on top of the next would provide more readability when there are a large number of icons/windows open.
I double checked in #fluxbox to make sure that this wasn't available with customized styles, which it isn't, and it seems like a useful and fairly easy-to-implement solution. The "toolbar.height:" style option can be used to adjust the width of the toolbar already, so perhaps a "toolbar.iconbar.orientation:" would be what's needed with variations for clock, workspace, button, etc.
If you're not seeing the applicability of this, consider an autohidden toolbar. Those who use a vertical slit with gkrellm or other system monitor permanently displayed could have a toolbar that extends over the slit, never blocking the current app. Or you could have an extremely wide (though it seems limited at this time to about 80 pixels) toolbar that extends over a large portion of the screen that would display all but the longest windows' titles.
Horizontal text/icons might be similar to this horizontal text for tabs request:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=647822&group_id=35398&atid=413960
But I mean horizontally across, not down like this:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2815945&group_id=35398&atid=413963
Thanks for your consideration,
Pat
I implemented this feature for windows list
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2869935&group_id=35398&atid=413962