Re: FVWM: border and title pixmap styles

From: Dominik Vogt <fvwm_at_fvwm.org>
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 10:56:41 +0200

On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 04:45:13PM -0400, Kendrick Vargas wrote:
> Has there been any work done towards making background pixmaps more
> customizable (sorta like what Sawmill does). By this, I mean the ability
> to have a pixmap specifically for the text of the title bar, then another
> pixmap for the remaining space, and pixmaps up and down the different
> directions of the borders?

No.

> Anyone who's used the default theme for Sawmill on a recent Ximian Gnome
> install should understand what I'm talking about. I thought that since
> Enlightenment came out, some of this functionality would get worked into
> fvwm2, but I don't even see that any work has started yet. I could be
> wrong, I haven't looked at the code itself, but there's nothing in the man
> pages :-)

Actually, two years ago there was a common consensus between the
developers not to go this way. We were much more concerned with
functionality than with looks.

Bye

Dominik ^_^ ^_^

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