Dominik Vogt <dominik.vogt_at_gmx.de> writes:
> On Sun, Jul 04, 1999 at 04:30:29PM -0000, Danny Dulai wrote:
> > I'd like to have the taskbar keep icons for my iconified windows. The
> > reason for this is that I like using FvwmAnimate, but I dislike icons.
> >
> > I'd like FvwmAnimate to be able to do draw its animaions over to the
> > taskbar. FvwmAnimate does this by getting the iconfiy/deiconfiy event from
> > fvwm along with the position of the window and the icon.
> >
> > Any ideas for implementation of this?
> >
> > Another idea I had was to make FvwmAnimate FvwmTaskBar-aware. But this
> > would require module-to-module communications, which I don't know is
> > possible.
Module to module communications is very possible. (Its done by
sending commands back to fvwm2 and having fvwm2 send them out to the
modules that ask for them.
In this case, you would want FvwmTaskBar to see the "iconify" or
"deiconify" packet without the icon coordinates, and have it send the
packet back to fvwm2 with the coordinates. Fvwm2 would then send the
packet with the co-ordinates out to all the modules that have asked
for these packet types.
> Please *don't* try making a patch. This is a topic in a standards
> discussion between several window manager and desktop environment
> developers right now. Any implementation will probably have to be
> rewritten in a few months, so this would be a waste of time.
After watching that list for a week or so, and going thru the
archives, I disagree. I don't think theres going to be any concensus
on that list. Even if there is, I don't think the change from using
the module communications to using X-atoms is all that hard.
I doubt I'll make the changes. I LIKE icons.
>
> Dominik ^_^
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Received on Wed Jul 14 1999 - 09:55:52 BST