Hey Andrés, On 12 October 2010 21:51, Andrés Musetti <amuse...@internet.com.uy> wrote: > I've updated dmenu recently, and noticed that dinput is gone, because it was >merged into dmenu. > I'd personally like to have dinput back, because I think it's better suited > to some tasks than dmenu.
The problem with dinput is it lead a lot of duplicated code. While developing I kept finding myself having to fix each bug twice. The only solution would be to add a lot more generic code, which is not "suckless". > For example, I used dinput to quickly edit the URL in surf, because it > required less "interaction" than dmenu: the URL was right there, waiting to > be edited. > In contrast, if I want to edit the URL in dmenu, I have to retype the URL, or > first Ctrl+Y, then Ctrl+G, and then paste into dmenu, all that "extra" steps > in order to edit the same URL. If your surf is configured correctly, editing the URL in dmenu ought to be a case of pressing Tab. I think this is default in hg? > Not a big deal, but I think dmenu and dinput are for different and > complementary things: dmenu is for quickly picking a string among many > others, while dinput if for quickly editing a given string. This was the idea, but unfortunately it seems to be too clunky. (And simplicity should not come at the cost of usability.) But like I say, at its current state dmenu becomes dinput as soon as you hit Tab. Thanks, cls
