On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 05:39:12PM +0100, Connor Lane Smith wrote:
I share Anselm's opinion that if you want to execute a more complex
command, you can just open a terminal. It's important to remember that
dmenu is a menu: you select items. The fact that you can append
arbitrary arguments is just a very fortunate byproduct of its
filter-by-input design.
I don't agree. Even from the outset, when it was wmiimenu, one
of the main purposes of dmenu was to input new data, such as tag
names. Even now, it's the primary input method for surf, used
for constructing complex strings like URLs ex nihilo.
--
Kris Maglione
Programming X Windows is like trying to find the square root of Pi
using roman numerals.
--Henry Spencer
