On Wed, 18 Sep 1996, Charles Hines wrote:
> I'm going to check out Rasterman's patches, just for grins, but I
> don't think I'll include that just yet. But perhaps if his additions
> are simple, maybe I will add them as a compile time option as well.
> Who knows?
I took a long long look at Rasterman's page. Although I find his ideas to
be REALLY cool, 8 hours of looking at that desktop could give one a very
serious migraine headache.
I'm not saying that some of these feature shouldn't be added. If these
are fairly small nonintrusive patches they should included. They could
make for some VERY attractive desktops when used properly.
What I would _r e a l l y_ like to see:
- Optional mini-pixmaps on the WindowList, and title bar
or on the N/W title bar button. This mini-icon would
"follow" the application via a common FVWM style. This has
already been done well by the Fvwm95 team via
Style "whatever" Titleicon mini-icon.xpm
Perhaps Hector P. could share a patch with us.
- If the titlebar pixmap patch is not adopted, then at the
least we should be able to set the titlebar (just the title
button itself) to a different color that the rest of the
window frame.
- The ability to NOT display geometry on the WindowList.
Actually, the whole WindowList syntax needs to be made less
cryptic. Again, Fvwm95 has improved this and we could benefit
from their work. Here is an excerpt from the Fvwm95 man page
regarding WindowList options.
ShowAllDesks - All windows on all desktops
ShowCurrentDesk - Only windows on the current desk-
top will be shown.
ShowDesk n - Only windows on desktop number n will
be shown.
ShowGeometry - When specified, the geometry of each
window will be added to the list.
UseWindowNames - The windows are listed using the
window (titlebar) name. This is the default
UseIconNames - The window's icon names is used
instead of the title name.
This is just my two cents. Although I have tinkered with and contributed
code to Fvwm95, I'm no Win95 fan. Nor am I really fond of the Win95
(Where in hell did the frames go?!?) look. I'm sure many of you share this
sentiment. However, that doesn't mean that we can't benefit from some of
the useful and attractive ideas of others. Not everything in the Win95
interface is bogus. Even the taskbar itself is a good idea, especially
when in autohide mode. It's just a horizontal FvwmWinList with a few
amenities, right? If you think about it, we did it first. So, let's sue
MS. ;-) Just kidding....
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TITUS Software
ftp://titus.cfw.com/pub
Waynesboro, Va (USA)
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Received on Thu Sep 19 1996 - 08:30:48 BST