Hi,
I think that this kind of functionnality is not a task for the
window manager. There is several public clients that do this perfectly
well : A panel of buttons with pixmaps that launch applications when
clicked on. I can't remember of any, but I'm sure someone in the list
can tell us.
Claude.
>
> 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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