On Mon, Nov 15, 1999 at 11:29:38AM -0500, dane_at_mk.telcordia.com wrote:
> "Matthew W. Roberts" <matt_at_lehi.tamu.edu> writes:
> > There are obviously many ideas about themes and how to implement
> > them. I'm wondering ... would it make sense to take an rfc approach
> > with this issue? I would be willing to coordinate such an effort
> > if that would help. I'm not an FVWM expert by any means, but I
> > am willing to do what I can.
>
> Always willing to expose my ignorance, I don't know what an "rfc
> approach" would be like. I've read RFCs, I'm just not familiar with
> the creation process.
>
> I'd like to pursue this as patches to "sample.fvwmrc/decor_examples"
> that would put a few basic decors into fvwm2 itself and then the
> themes could reside wherever and be built on top. Note how
> "decor_examples" creates a "DecorMenu". I would hope that part of
> creating a theme would be to add an entry to the "DecorMenu".
Uh, with all the work I spent with style changes, couldn't we
just forget about decors and do it with separate files that
read in certain groups of styles? Perhaps we need a better
'UseStyle' style that can be updated at run time.
> I was hoping to hook this up to the config creation stuff in
> "fvwm/ConfigFvwmSetup". I don't know if I'll get to this, so patches
> would be nice.
>
> (All this is referring to new functionality that only appears in the
> 2.3.x betas.)
Al this 'Theme' stuff is closely related to a potential future
configuration fvwm module/application/script. If we can write
or edit the config files with such a tool we are already halfway
there. Can FvwmForm be our config tool? What I dream about is
an application that fakes a window or menu and where you can click
on the parts to get a dialog to change the corresponding settings.
If the output of such scripts is is grouped in several files,
implementing a theme would be as easy as replacing one or more of
the files and perhaps restart fvwm (I hope that this is not
necessary).
Bye
Dominik ^_^
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Received on Mon Nov 15 1999 - 10:44:01 GMT