On Tue, 19 Jan 1999 01:30:39 +0100
Dominik Vogt <dominik.vogt_at_planet-interkom.de>
wrote concerning 'Re: FVWM: Ideas for improvements to the configuration file':
> On Mon, Jan 18, 1999 at 03:02:47PM +0000, Michael F Gordon wrote:
> > After having played with 2.1.7 for a while, the inconsistencies
> > in how various commands take their options began to annoy me.
> > The following changes would, in my opinion, make things cleaner
> > and simpler.
> >
> > Get rid of HighlightColor and specify HilightColorForeground
> > and HilightColorBackground in Style commands.
>
> Why should it? The hilighting colour is definitely a global
> setting. Why should it be a window style?
Dominik
I disagree. If I say something like this:
Style "Emacs" Color White/Green
Style "XTerm" Color White/Blue
it is very reasonable for me to want to also say:
Style "Emacs" HilightColor White/LightGreen
Style "XTerm" HilightColor White/LightBlue
I also think this is what an awful lot of people expect to work, and they
struggle for a while with the fact that they can set colors on a per
window basis, but not highlight colors.
> > > WindowFont should be part of the Style command as well.
I don't see why the font shouldn't be settable per window, though I have
less strong feelings about this.
> > IconFont should be extended to a full IconStyle, with the
> > default IconStyle inheriting the values that make sense for
> > icons from the default Style unless they've been set explicitly.
>
> Again I don't understand what what the benefit would be. Looking
> through the manpage I see not settings at all that would make
> sense passing from a window style to an icon style. There are
> only two things configurable to icons (apart from the font):
> If it goes into the icon box and if it has a title.
I've not thought about the icon stuff.
Cheers
Ric
Richard J Lister, Georgetown Institute for Cognitive and Computational Sciences
Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC 20007, USA
Phone: +1 202-687 2878
Email: ric_at_giccs.georgetown.edu
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Received on Tue Jan 19 1999 - 10:16:48 GMT