On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 4:43 PM, David Niklas <do...@mail.com> wrote: > On Fri, 11 Nov 2016 23:13:49 +0000 > > Not so much a question as a comment. > Many window managers and desktop environments have tried in vain to create > an automatic menu generator without success, I recommend that fvwm does > not attempt to do this, they break very easily over time. >
Fvwm already provides such ability. The core of fvwm provides users with a configuration syntax to build menus and fvwm also provides a way for things to be scripted. So really an automatic menu generator is just a script that outputs the configuration syntax of fvwm. Within the core of fvwm is the method to build menus using the configuration syntax (which is one of the things that is planed to change in the future of fvwm) and create some sort of menu object that fvwm displays to the user. Independent of that is the ability to write scripts to generate menus. These can be from simple shell scripts, for i in wallpappers/*.jpg; do ... to build a wallpaper menu as mentioned in the manpage, to more complicated perl and now python scripts: fvwm-menu-desktop, fvwm-menu-directory, fvwm-menu-headlines and fvwm-menu-xlock are all scripts provided by fvwm. On top of that you can write you own scripts to automatically generate menus on your system. So this ability is already there and I think done in a nice way. In the core it is just the ability to configure menus (including dynamic ones that are generated when they are opened) and via fvwms ability to work with scripts, you can additionally use a script to generate menus. Yes the scripts sometimes break and need updated, but they are not internal to fvwm and are only optional for those who want to use them (and maybe fix them when standards evolve). > Also, please retain the win95 configuration script, in fact, they ability > to run a simple script to generate a few different common configurations > is a strong point of many WMs. > This is already gone. Fvwm now provides a default config as a starting point for users who don't want to write one from scratch. But Fvwm is more a wm that provides a user with the ability to configure their own setup. Examples are probably better given through some other means, such as the wiki. jaimos
