Re: FVWM: FvwmGeom module

From: Brady Montz <bradym_at_cs.arizona.edu>
Date: 18 Aug 1997 18:53:45 -0700

Richard A Lee <Richard_Lee_at_mclean.sterling.com> writes:

> Brady Montz <bradym_at_cs.arizona.edu> writes:
>
> > Elad Eyal <elad_at_CS.bgu.ac.il> writes:
> [...]
> >> However, I've still didn't figure out a good use to mouse button
> >> 3. Since this is (currently) a resize/move module, it won't be very
> >> useful to allow iconifing or randomplacement... would it?
> >>
> [...]
> > Since I haven't downloaded the module, I may be totally off base, but
> > the "I've still didn't figure out a good use to mouse button 3"
> > sentence makes me suspicious.
>
> > You shouldn't hardcode which button does what.
> [...]
>
> Yeah! Now, could someone convince Robert Nation (or whoever is
> currently maintaining FvwmPager) of that? I find it a pain to have to
> click left, then middle, to switch to desired window on desired page ...

The problem is that I don't think anyone is really currently maintaining
FvwmPager. I do think that every module should be that flexible
though. Another which comes to mind is FvwmButtons. It might be nice to be
able to make button 1 start up an application, and button 3 pop up a menu
which does things to the appropriate window (ie, button3 over my netscape icon
would let me choose between uniconifying, raising, lowering, etc some/all of
my netscape windows; or maybe button 2 just toggles whether netscape is
iconified).

I would be willing to volunteer to write up some code to do all this and stick
it in fvwmlib after fvwm 2.1 is officially released. It would mostly involve
cleaning up FvwmIconMan code which I aim to clean anyway. I haven't
volunteered yet though.

-- 
 Brady Montz
 bradym_at_cs.arizona.edu
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