On Thu, 6 Mar 2008, Ingo Wardinski wrote:
I'm sure there are profound reasons not to include such features as menutranslucency, topborder, inactivefont, round corners , etc. into fvwm. Which are these??
In most cases the patches have not been submitted to the fvwm-workers list, and in the cases where they have they mostly lack proper documentation of the features. Also some patches add stuff without adding configuration options to control their behaviour.
Appart from that patches require quite some proof reading and some patches tend to be relatively large. I've personally checked on the menu translucency patch a while back, and I think it is mature enough for inclusion. But it lacks documentation, and still has to be checked against the latest CVS to see that there haven't come any new issues since I last checked and updated the patch. There is also the issue of if Translucent really should be a colorset-option, or if the translucent menus should be a menu style, to avoid confusing users that tries to make a colorset translusent, only to see that it doesn't work (for anything but menus). That should probably be discussed. There is a thread about it from a few weeks ago somewhere.
I don't know of the state of any other patches. I know that there are some patches that have been sent to the workers list, wich I intend to take a look at once I get a little more time. But I believe that most of the patches that are included with the Gentoo live ebuild have never been submitted to the workers list.
/Viktor
