[openbox] Images in the menu

[Tero Grundström]

Hi all,

On Fri, 29 Oct 2004, Mark Gjøl wrote:

> Brett Campbell wrote:
> > this is a JACKED up thread.  anyone who _wants_ icons in their ob menu
> > _should_ be using kde.
>
> Or IceWM (which apparently have a smaller memory imprint than
> openbox)...

I wanted to like Openbox but then I discovered Icewm which

1. is more actively developed
2. has alot more features
3. is more configurable
4. consumes less memory (!)
5. is almost as fast
6. has no need for external panels/taskbars that don't integrate very well
with the WM anyway

Currently I can think only one reason to use OB - it can be made look
a bit better than Icewm.

> I'm installing programs for students at a university, and
> one of the things I'm installing is a couple of window managers, so they
> can choose (CDE, KDE, Gnome, IceWM, Openbox). I just thought it would be
> nice for openbox also to have icons, so images in the menus was
> consistent over all choices, personally I don't care. Openbox is my
> favorite wm, and I like it just as it is - and I don't use the menus.

Well yes, there definately is "that" something in OB, and that's why I
like it too. But if I consider that list above and actual usability, Icewm
wins hands down.


PS. I really hate the "send your patches" and other elitistic comments
that seems to plague this list...

--
T.G.