psmith_at_baynetworks.com (Paul D. Smith) writes:
> %% Bob Mende Pie <mende_at_piecomputer.engr.sgi.com> writes:
>
> bmp> I just spent 15 minutes adding the ability determine if a window
> bmp> is "WindowShaded" so I can do complex operations on it. I see
> bmp> that this was never added since ALL of the 32 bits of the window
> bmp> flags field are allocated. (Note, I stole bit 31, from the motif
> bmp> hacks which I dont use). What do people think about bumping this
> bmp> to 64 bits?
>
> This is known as the GSFR (Great Style Flag Rewrite) and is the very
> first and most important thing that is planned for the post-2.1 FVWM
> version. People have so many uses for this by now that 64 bits is
> likely not enough; it'll have to be expandable (would anyway,
> obviously).
>
> Of course, the GSFR is really a legend and will never happen, because
> FVWM 2.1 is a legend and will never happen (no offense to anyone in
> particular, but it's been 2 years or more since I saw the first message
> saying there was going to be one more "clean up" version, then 2.1; many
> months, releases, and identical announcements later there seems to be
> lots of enhancements but exactly 0 progress towards that goal. Just my
> perspective :).
Maybe I'm confused. There are flags in the WindowList structure, and
flags in the name_list (Style flags) structure. The bits serve
different purposes in each. In both cases, it looks like all the bits
are used up. I thought the term GSFR applied to the Style Flags.
In the case of the WindowList, I don't see any obstacle to adding
another unsigned long (flags2?) to hold additional bits.
On the separate subject of the style flags, after the iconboxes patch,
I don't see any obstacle to doing the same thing for new style
bitfields.
Please correct me if I'm missing something.
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Received on Wed Dec 10 1997 - 07:58:28 GMT