[openbox] Openbox bootstap (and configuration fails)

[Tim Riley]

On Sat, 2002-11-02 at 10:30, Marius Nita wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 03:55:22PM -0600, Ava Arachne Jarvis wrote:
> > [John Eckerdal - Fri,  1 Nov 2002 02:56:51 AM CST]
> > > There is one problem remaining though. When otk was finished building it
> > > required ../libtool which was not created. Manually creating that symlink
> > > lets me compile openbox.
> > 
> > A library for OpenBox-type graphics?  That's awesome.  If there's one
> > thing I always thought was insane about all bbtools is that every little
> > tool or app reimplemented (or just included) the graphics code.  (Some
> > bbtools only use the old BlackBox 0.50.xx code, even.)
> 
> that's the idea. this will go further than just putting the graphics code in a
> library however. it will provide high level drawing primitives, like buttons,
> labels, text widgets, etc. basically, a very minuscule qt-like thing that
> uses the openbox image code to create its pixmaps.

Enough, perhaps, to write an openbox configuration tool?

How about menus?  I assume it wouldn't be too difficult to manufacture a
widget-like menu system from the current code?


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