On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 05:49:00PM -0500, Dan Espen wrote:
> Thomas Adam <tho...@fvwm.org> writes:
>
> > On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 02:10:54PM -0700, Jaimos Skriletz wrote:
> >> > > 2) Rewrite the menu syntax and redsign the object, there was some talk
> >> > > about this on the mailing list years ago now and some good ideas for
> >> >
> >> > And the link to that thread is?
> >> >
> >>
> >> http://www.mail-archive.com/fvwm-workers@lists.math.uh.edu/msg07167.html
> >
> > Hmm. This is terrible. If only because menus are treated here as some kind
> > of alien-citizen and if this suggestion was to ever go through they should
> > be treated the same way in FVWM like any other entity.
>
> Seems to be a lot of change with no new function.
It's not that so much that. Menus are treated separately from functions --
and in some respect they need to be, yet their syntax and operation can also
be similar. Moreso in that the way they're styled is separate from normal
windows (for technical reasons only).
I don't deny that the feature-request for this is a good thing, but I do not
think gleaming anything from that thread in terms of its implementation
merits anything, especially not when comparing it to how menus are handled
now.
> As I understand it, Fvwm can be accepting commands from many sources at
> the same time. Various modules can send commands to Fvwm, each is
> sent one at a time. I don't believe "+" is handled as it should be
> to account for this.
Well there's no real way to send a "+" command from a module and its use
outside of a configuration file is going to be ambiguous and at best
completely undefined. And to be honest, that behaviour away from where "+"
is used *should* be that way.
If there's a good enough case to demonstrate where the "+" command
falls-short, I'd entertain a bug-fix to this, but I would want to see some
test-cases to show how it's been fixed so as not to interrupt or break its
current behaviour, which works just fine.
-- Thomas Adam
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