Tom Malloy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | I am very upset by these hook things. I do not understand them. They seem | to be much harder to work with than regular configuration (.*rc) files. | They seem to require that the user know which hook file to edit. There | are several, prethis.hook postthat.hook etc. Some hooks are links to null | files. This is all very confusing for the novice. At least it is very | confusing and upsetting to me. Also the existing hook files are empty. | This means that the user must write them from scratch as opposed to merely | editing the existing configuration file. This is practically impossible | for the novice user. | | I can't see that they serve any useful purpose other than making Linux | inaccessable to novice users. Please don't misunderstand, I accept that | linux has a learning curve. I have a big pile of books on my desk. I | read man pages and howtos and info and mailing lists and usenet. But | there is just no reason or justification for organizing configuration | files in this confusing and intimidating manner. Applications, and os's, | should be usable and reasonably configurably at every level of user | ability. Thankyou for any help.
Just to offer an opposing viewpoint... I LOVE the way the hooks work! Before I figured out how to use them I'd just copy over a system.fvwm2rc or some other sample .fvwm2rc file and after about a year I think, MAYBE, two out five of my menu items would actually work. I was just too lazy to keep my own ~/.fvwm2rc file up to date. I don't find the process of editing my ~/.fvwm2rc file a lot of fun and now I don't have to bother! When I add/remove an X Application via dselect or dpkg the item is nicely added/removed from the system files and I don't have to worry about it. And the addition/removal doesn't affect my own "hook" files at all so I can keep just the essential things there that I know are pretty much static. Besides, you don't have to use them. Just create your own ~/.fvwm2rc file and you'll never know anything about the files in /etc/X11/fvwm2. At least I believe that's the way it works? Sure it took me a little while to figure out how they work but reading /usr/doc/fvwm2/README.sysrc.gz helped and now I wouldn't go back to the old method if someone payed me! Gary -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
