On 16 Jul 1997 12:37:38 -0700
Brady Montz <bradym_at_cs.arizona.edu>
wrote concerning 'Re: FVWM: FvwmIconMan: MiniIcons and Minimization':
> Brian Sayatovic <bjs_at_iti-oh.com> writes:
>
> Well, the original intent was that the miniicons are used to denote which
> windows are iconified. I've been toying with the idea of adding code that
> allows you to specify other ways of showing this, but haven't really figured
> out a nice way.
I thought about this for a while and what I would like to see is the addition
of an 'iconifiedbutton' identifier to correspond to selectbutton,
focusbutton, etc. This way I could have flat buttons becoming raised
when iconified, and so on. I would find this a stronger visual cue than
the presence of a mini-icon.
To be really flexible we could add a state 'none' to flat, up, down, etc,
to have no button appear.
I hacked around with the code a bit a couple of months ago in an attempt
to implement the former, but I had quite a lot of difficulty. I can't
remember the exact problem. Maybe I should try and dig out those hacks.
> FvwmIconMan is starting to truly act like an icon manager, just as fvwm is a
> window manager.
I've always felt that icon handling shouldn't be a job for the window
manager. We should strip all icon code out of fvwm, and just have a bunch
of different icon managers running as modules to implement different
icon handling strategies.
> Another potential cool thing is if (maybe by drag and drop - yow!) you could
> use FvwmIconMan to group windows. Make a little key command to create a new
> window manager, and drag buttons from one manager to the next. Then make some
> fvwm commands to act on entire groups of windows, and use FvwmIconMan to be a
> graphical interface for managing all of that. That would be cool. He he. I'd
> love to iconify all of my netscape windows at once, or move all of my xterms
> titled "al01 *" en masse to another desktop.
Whoosh! Now you're getting carried away :-)
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 Thu Jul 17 1997 - 11:31:25 BST