On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 10:49:08AM -0400, Kendrick Vargas wrote:
> 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)
Yes. It requires a totally different approach of the internal
window layout.
Bye
Dominik ^_^ ^_^
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Received on Thu Sep 27 2001 - 08:19:27 BST