On Sun, Jan 10, 1999 at 04:14:15AM +0100, Linus Nilsson wrote:
> Hello all!
>
> I would like to suggest a new IconBox feature: AutoArrange.
>
> This would work like in e.g. Window Maker. When a window is deiconified or
> destroyed the iconfied windows would rearrange and move to fill the box
> from where it "starts". This way icons in the IconBox would not end up
> scattered all over after a while.
>
> I know that this is a feature a lot of people miss in fvwm*, even me myself
> know a lot of people who have whined about it. It shouldn't be to hard to
> implement either, IMHO, just scanning through the list of existing windows
> each time a window is deiconified or destroyed and then rearrange the ones
> that are still iconified.
>
> Me myself don't feel competent enough to make a flawless patch and then keep
> it up-to-date with the current /fast/ development, so I'm hoping one of the
> developers read this and finds my suggestion reasonable. It would make fvwm2
> /even/ more complete.
Would you please enter this into our bug database (which keeps track
of enhancement requests too)? Just follow the links to the bug tracking
tool from our homepage (
http://fvwm.math.uh.edu/ ). If you feel
you can create such a patch you should do so. Don't worry about bugs,
we usually take a close look at patches before applying them. Although
no new patches will make it into 2.2 this is a particularly good time
to write this since we already had our 'feature freeze' for 2.2. Only
bugfixes will go in for a while so don't worry about the 'fast development'.
We have an *incredibly* long to do list after 2.2 already so writing
a patch yourself is the fastest way to get that feature.
BTW, keeping your patches up to date is almost trivial if you just
keep your sources up to date with CVS. It's not very likely that
someone will touch the icon box code at any moment.
> Your making a great job. Keep it up.
Thanks.
Bye
Dominik
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Dominik Vogt, dominik.vogt_at_planet-interkom.de
Reply-To: dominik_vogt_at_hp.com
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Received on Sun Jan 10 1999 - 07:40:33 GMT