I agree with you. Drastic changes can have bad side effects.
Smooth changes are the way to go. I vote for it to be implemented as
a temporary alias and then if we all like it in the future then we can
all switch.
Neil
On Thu, 10 Sep 1998, shipwrecked voyage of discovery wrote:
> > Wouldn't it be better if IconPath would be renamed to "BitmapPath"
> > in view of the fact that there is a "PixmapPath"? After all Fvwm2
> > is already incompatible with Fvwm1 so this extra naming fix should
> > not be a big change in view of what has already been changed.
>
> Only if it were currently implemented as an alias, and then perhaps have
> "IconPath" deprecated post-2.2. Many of us are using IconPath currently,
> and we shouldn't implement a change that breaks an existing config file,
> except on an early development track (earlier than the late-beta track Fvwm2
> is currently on).
>
> Randy
> --
> Beware the sarcophogi being offered as "gratefully vacant".
>
> rjray_at_tsoft.com
>
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