Re: [rox-devel] special wm for rox?

[MJ R. <ma...@cl...>]

Vincent Lefevre <vi...@vi...> writes:

> Not only these applications. ROX-Filer has a 'xterm here' menu item
> which opens an xterm (or similar). For consistency, these applications
> should be considered too.

Then maybe ROX should consider using a different terminal which can
behave like a good application?  Probably eterm can be themed suitably
-- does anyone know if such a theme exists already?

> > There's two parts to ROX: RISCOS and X.  Who do you follow?
> RISC OS.

And there we differ.  I'd follow X.

> Not all applications use button 3 as menu. So, X has already been
> inconsistent, contrary to RISC OS. In ROX-Filer, I've chosen to
> enable the RISC OS options.

That's your choice and not the default for a reason.  Many X
applications do use 3 for the context menu.  Open on my desktop at the
moment, besides ROX, I have my window manager [ ;-) ], XEmacs, GIMP
and gkrellm, all of which use button 3 in that way.  The right level
to change this at is the toolkit or server, not by offering it as an
option in every application.

Personally, I'm very happy to have button 3 as menu, as some of the
machines I use have 2-button mice (yuk) and I use menu rather more
often than adjust.

> > It also means that more X applications will seem to work in a ROXish
> > manner.
> But not all. Even ROX is inconsistent by default: when you have to
> enter text, button 1 behaves as Select and button 3 behaves as Adjust;
> there is no menu, but this is replaced by a paste operation.

I can see the logic in this operation anyway.  Button 1 (select) does
what it says on the tin.  Button 2 (adjust) does the exact converse
operation to select, ie some sort of modification to select.  Button 3
(menu) is non-sensical here, so does something completely different.