FVWM: New default configuration wanted...

2011-04-18 Thread Thomas Adam
Hi all, This intended to be something fairly long-running, and I personally don't wish to make the UI decisions myself, although I will keep a very close eye on the FVWM-specific aspects of a proposed config to make sure it's done "right". What do I mean when I say "right"? Well, for far too lon

Re: FVWM: New default configuration wanted...

2011-04-18 Thread Tom Horsley
No don't do it! Pretty soon you'll be caught up in the whole newer is better philosophy that KDE and GNOME are trapped in and no one on the planet will have any idea how to use fvwm because it keeps moving everything around and changing in every release. I'd suggest my default config, but you obvi

Re: FVWM: New default configuration wanted...

2011-04-18 Thread Thomas Adam
On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 08:53:58AM -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > No don't do it! Pretty soon you'll be caught up in the whole > newer is better philosophy that KDE and GNOME are trapped in > and no one on the planet will have any idea how to use fvwm > because it keeps moving everything around and ch

Re: FVWM: New default configuration wanted...

2011-04-18 Thread despen
Thomas Adam writes: > All I am really looking to see what the interest involved in this is. I > warn you though, I won't hesitate to put a stop to it if this turns into a > shed-painting exercise -- I don't want that. I can already foresee a bunch > of shed-painting, and I won't tolerate it. S

Re: FVWM: New default configuration wanted...

2011-04-18 Thread Thomas Adam
Hi Dan, On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 09:59:48AM -0400, des...@verizon.net wrote: > Thomas Adam writes: > > > All I am really looking to see what the interest involved in this is. I > > warn you though, I won't hesitate to put a stop to it if this turns into a > > shed-painting exercise -- I don't wa

Re: FVWM: New default configuration wanted...

2011-04-18 Thread despen
Thomas Adam writes: > Hi Dan, > > On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 09:59:48AM -0400, des...@verizon.net wrote: >> Thomas Adam writes: >> >> > All I am really looking to see what the interest involved in this is. I >> > warn you though, I won't hesitate to put a stop to it if this turns into a >> > shed

Re: FVWM: New default configuration wanted...

2011-04-18 Thread Kathryn Andersen
On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 02:02:52PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote: > > Heh -- I am not suggesting that! It would be fairly static once in place -- > it's a *window manager* after all. Things like: > > * New FvwmButtons -- swallowing things like: > - FvwmIconMan > - FvwmScript (maybe a clo

Re: FVWM: New default configuration wanted...

2011-04-18 Thread Julien Guertault
Apr 19, 2011 at 14:27, Kathryn Andersen : > On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 02:02:52PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote: >> >> [we need a new default config] > > [at very least the colour scheme] > > One program I've found helpful in devising colour schemes is Agave. > http://home.gna.org/colorscheme/ > > Another