On 19 June 2012 16:39, Ruben Mikkonen <camu.u...@gmail.com> wrote: > Scroll bars are quite useless, since the data they contain is not > important (where in the page the view is), and using scroll bars to > actually scroll is just dumb. > > For multiline text editing you can use another external program or > hack dmenu. I prefer the former, because I see no other use except a > browser for multiline text editing in dmenu. > > Any other problems? I, in fact, am interested, though I am not sure if > I want to kill myself playing with WebKit. > > On 6/19/12, Calvin Morrison <mutanttur...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 19 June 2012 16:14, Ruben Mikkonen <camu.u...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> No need to develop swk, since we already have dmenu, which I consider >>> the ultimate widget kit. A minute ago I added -n flag to disable it >>> outputting (eg. passwords), so it really can be used as a web >>> browser's widget kit. >>> >>> Attached file is the trivial patch to disable outputting for dmenu-4.5. >>> >>> On 6/19/12, pancake <panc...@youterm.com> wrote: >>>> On 06/19/12 17:11, Calvin Morrison wrote: >>>>> All of that, to say - we cannot (and I don't think anyone does) >>>>> pretend that surf's underlying core doesn't suck - glib is a >>>>> nightmare to work with and Qt isn't much better. the whole g-blob is >>>>> terrible, but we wrap it up and pretend it is pretty. I sometimes wish >>>>> that there was a suckless widget set that worked well but only did >>>>> that - widgets. Then it would be fun to port webkit to that widget set >>>>> :-) ... anyway i'll stop tangenting. >>>> >>>> http://hg.suckless.org/swk >>>> >>>> feel free to contribute ;) >>>>> Calvin >>>>> >>>>> [0] http://code.google.com/p/svte >>>>> >> >> But what does that have to do with things like implementing scroll >> bars, multiline text editing and other normal things? >> >>
Scrollbars are important visual indicators - but other widgets are important, like checkboxes and such. though, it maybe be easy to hack dmenu to do that as well... I think it would be an interesting project
