Re: FVWM: border and title pixmap styles

From: Kendrick Vargas <ken_at_hudat.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 10:49:08 -0400 (EDT)

On Tue, 25 Sep 2001, Dominik Vogt wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 04:45:13PM -0400, Kendrick Vargas wrote:
>
> > 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.

Well, if you think about it, adding a little more customization to the
pixmaps in the title would be a functional decision rather than a "looks"
decision.

Being able to use a different pixmap for the area immediately below the
title would help a designer in using pixmaps for the background. As it is,
I imagine pixmaps for backgrounds on any window are pretty much pointless
unless you've found the magic pixmap that lets your window look good while
not killing the visibility of your title. If you could change the pixmap
for the background area behind the title, it'd aid in making visual
identification of a window easier.

I think an addition like this would be a functional one. Just being able
to change the pixmap immediately behind the title, as well as another two
settings for transitions into the other pixmaps.

Would that be so hard? (I'm being serious, not sarcastic)
                        -peace

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Received on Wed Sep 26 2001 - 09:48:59 BST

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