Comments on: Extra buttons http://blogs.gnome.org/metacity/2008/12/22/extra-buttons/ "Many window managers are like Marshmallow Froot Loops; Metacity is like Cheerios." Sun, 26 Sep 2010 15:08:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Half-finished code finishing marathon time - …for the adult in you http://blogs.gnome.org/metacity/2008/12/22/extra-buttons/comment-page-1/#comment-660 Half-finished code finishing marathon time - …for the adult in you Mon, 12 Jan 2009 00:58:10 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/metacity/?p=210#comment-660 [...] something you can bind a keystroke to, you should be able to put it into the window menu or make it a titlebar button or whatever.  This may be over-configurable, but there may be advantages of a simplified [...] [...] something you can bind a keystroke to, you should be able to put it into the window menu or make it a titlebar button or whatever.  This may be over-configurable, but there may be advantages of a simplified [...]

]]> By: ᛏᚦ » Blog Archive » If you’re not reading the Metacity blog http://blogs.gnome.org/metacity/2008/12/22/extra-buttons/comment-page-1/#comment-593 ᛏᚦ » Blog Archive » If you’re not reading the Metacity blog Tue, 23 Dec 2008 15:52:56 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/metacity/?p=210#comment-593 [...] Is there a good way to allow arbitrary titlebar buttons to be defined? [...] [...] Is there a good way to allow arbitrary titlebar buttons to be defined? [...]

]]> By: Notifisation - …for the adult in you http://blogs.gnome.org/metacity/2008/12/22/extra-buttons/comment-page-1/#comment-588 Notifisation - …for the adult in you Tue, 23 Dec 2008 04:36:29 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/metacity/?p=210#comment-588 [...] …for the adult in you “Many window managers are like Marshmallow Froot Loops; Metacity is like Cheerios.” Skip to content « Extra buttons [...] [...] …for the adult in you “Many window managers are like Marshmallow Froot Loops; Metacity is like Cheerios.” Skip to content « Extra buttons [...]

]]> By: Thomas Thurman http://blogs.gnome.org/metacity/2008/12/22/extra-buttons/comment-page-1/#comment-587 Thomas Thurman Mon, 22 Dec 2008 21:20:47 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/metacity/?p=210#comment-587 @Luke: Certainly it's a possibility to make actions bindable to DBus methods, and that goes for keybindings too. But I'd rather not have the actions available to me dictated by the theme I'm using-- so I had to use a theme I didn't like merely because it happened to be the only one which had a screenshot button. I realise people could hack up the XML to copy a button to another theme, but not everyone's willing or able to hack XML. @Luke:

Certainly it’s a possibility to make actions bindable to DBus methods, and that goes for keybindings too. But I’d rather not have the actions available to me dictated by the theme I’m using– so I had to use a theme I didn’t like merely because it happened to be the only one which had a screenshot button. I realise people could hack up the XML to copy a button to another theme, but not everyone’s willing or able to hack XML.

]]> By: Luke http://blogs.gnome.org/metacity/2008/12/22/extra-buttons/comment-page-1/#comment-586 Luke Mon, 22 Dec 2008 21:17:05 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/metacity/?p=210#comment-586 Can't you just allow a theme to define any buttons it wants, and extend the theme spec to bind the button action to a specific DBUS method, then extend Metacity to listen for DBUS events from the theme engine? This would work for the simplest actions... more complex actions could be handled by having a scripting engine that would allow theme designers to bundle scripts with their themes (and then we're back to using something like Sawfish again ;-) ) Can’t you just allow a theme to define any buttons it wants, and extend the theme spec to bind the button action to a specific DBUS method, then extend Metacity to listen for DBUS events from the theme engine? This would work for the simplest actions… more complex actions could be handled by having a scripting engine that would allow theme designers to bundle scripts with their themes (and then we’re back to using something like Sawfish again ;-) )

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