Claude.
I use popup menus quite a lot, but this means you have to go find an entry
in a popup menu that could have many other entries. You could also bind an
application to a keyboard event for quicker access to the progam, but then
you have to remember which keyboard stroke goes with which program. Having
a shortcut icon permanently on the root menu provides the quickest way of
finding and starting a program. Also, popup entries are, I believe, limited
to text only, whereas shortcuts would allow you to use a bitmap or pixmap
in addition to text, so that you could more easily identify the program.
Yet another feauture, and probably the most significant, is that you could
put different shortcuts on the root windows of different workspaces. Currently,
popup menus are always the same no matter what workspace you are in. With
shortcuts you can have workspace-dependent program selection capability.
This feature becomes even better if you let the user define shortcuts on
the fly through forms instead of modifying .ctwmrc and restarting the window
manager.
For me, this kind of capability is very important since I tend to work on
several projects at once, and keep each different project in a separate
workspace. Each project, of course, has different requirements in terms of
the types of applications to run, so it is nice to have a setup unique to
each workspace.
In principal this capability is very much a combination of popup
menus and icons, so that should make it all that much easier to implement
since most of the code for the individual pieces is already there.
-Kevin
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