On Wed, 18 Jun 1997 13:12:31 +0200 (METDST)
Jacco van Schaik <jacco_at_nlr.nl>
wrote concerning 'FVWM: New guy':
> Hi all,
>
> I've been using fvwm2 (and fvwm1 before) for some years now and I've
> just subscribed to this here mailing list. I thought I'd take the
> opportunity to contribute some questions/comments.
>
> Why are the Color and HilightColor commands so different? The syntax is
> different ("color1 color2" vs. "color1/color2"), the places where they
> can be used (in a Style vs. at the top-level), the one doesn't accept
> an "rgb:rr/gg/bb" color spec and the other does, the one can be split
> into a BackColor and a ForeColor and the other can't. I end up having
> to specify normal and hilighted colors in different places and in
> different ways, which looks really awkward.
I think this is historical. The HilightColor command existed long
before Style "*" Color was created. I agree with you that it is
not very intuitive. Now we have the new decors it is possible to
get some strange and counterintuitive interactions between
BorderStyle, Color and HilightColor.
In my opinion this should all be rewritten as part of the
Great Style Flag rewrite. And so I come to a proposal I'd like
to put to Chuck and the others.
I think fvwm-2.0.45 is pretty stable (more stable than a lot of software
I use!). How about freezing the features and releasing it as 2.1,
then having parallel releases: 2.x will just be bug fixes for the
current feature set, while 3.x (or whatever) will have all the
code rewrites people have been planning for so long. People adding
features will be encouraged to add them to the cleaner code
of the 3.x betas.
It strikes me that Chuck spends a lot of time adding and debugging
all the great new features that people keep writing, and we'll
never get to 2.1 and begin the GSFR at this rate.
Just my 2c. Comments?
Ric
Richard J Lister, Georgetown Institute for Cognitive and Computational Sciences
Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC.
Phone: 202-687 2878
Email: ric_at_giccs.georgetown.edu
Web:
http://www.giccs.georgetown.edu/
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Received on Wed Jun 18 1997 - 11:19:34 BST