%% "Mike Campbell" <MLCAMPBE_at_us.oracle.com> writes:
mc> I've been running Fvwm2 for several months now with no problems and have
mc> recently found TkGoodstuff.
mc> After looking at TkGoodstuff it appears that it does almost
mc> exactly the same thing as FvwmButtons.
This is not actually true.
TkGoodstuff:
- Has the preferences manager, as you pointed out. This is actually
pretty nice.
- Is written in TCL/Tk, and has a number of embedded applications like
webster, ical monitor, load monitor, pager of sorts, clock, network
uptime monitor, notetaker, etc. Since they're all more-or-less
embedded, they don't take up extra process space/memory--of course,
the tcl/tk interpreter itself is no small puppy :)
- You need to install the right version of tcl/tk before you can use
it.
FvwmButtons:
- Is much a smaller app
- But it must launch a separate program for everything: clock,
etc. etc. so it may well turn out to use more resources, depending
on what you use.
- Is more flexible and configurable than TkGoodstuff: for example, in
my version of TkGoodstuff (which isn't the latest) you can bind
actions only to mouse-1 clicks. In FvwmButtons you can bind to all
kinds of events.
- Gets the window geometry and icon placement correct more often
(although TkGoodstuff is improving a lot here).
- Doesn't need tcl/tk :)
I use TkGoodstuff right now, but I haven't thrown out my FvwmButtons
config yet...
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Received on Wed Apr 30 1997 - 07:39:50 BST