On Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 04:59:23PM -0400, Kendrick Vargas wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, Dominik Vogt wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 10:08:27PM -0400, Kendrick Vargas wrote:
> > > Is there any chance.. or... how difficult would it be to turn the pager
> > > into a Gnome Applet?
> >
> > I don't know the Gnome specs for applets, so I can't really answer
> > your question. The EWMH spec includes some rules for pager
> > applications to communicate with desktop environments and this
> > will eventually be implemented in fvwm. If your question is only
> > about swallowing the pager in some gnome specific panel or tool
> > bar, then it's probably quite easy to do - but keep in mind that
> > we don't want to introduce new dependencies with third party
> > libraries without good reason.
>
> Actually, what I meant was running the FVWM Pager outside of FVWM, so that
> if I chose I could use it with other window managers.
Ugh, no, that wouldn't be easy at all. FvwmPager totally relies
on fvwm's module interface and even fvwm's built in commands.
Basically this would entail rewriting 50% of the code.
> I love using FVWM at
> work because it allows me to be extremely productive. However at home I
> don't really care what window manager I use, and gnome isn't all that bad,
> except that the only pager they have sucks more than a team of hoovers on
> "high". I haven't seen a pager as configurable and useful as the one from
> FVWM. So I was wondering if it'd be difficult to take the FvwmPager out of
> fvwm and generalize it for something like Gnome.
>
> PS> I have had fvwm running inside gnome for a while at my office. At home
> I've been using Nautilus and other stuff for filemanagement, and some of
> them don't play nice with fvwm...
Bye
Dominik ^_^ ^_^
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Dominik Vogt, dominik.vogt_at_gmx.de
Reply-To: dominik.vogt_at_gmx.de
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Received on Sun Oct 14 2001 - 18:06:08 BST