On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 12:08:01AM +0930, Tim Riley wrote: > On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 09:33:34AM -0500, xOr wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 11:47:26PM +0930, Tim Riley wrote: > > > Imho, for this sort of bog standard window behaviour, a sane default > > > should be picked, and kept. Otherwise (that is, after feature freeze), we > > > might get config item creep! > > > > I, for one, see no problem with this config item creep. :) They add enormous > > amounts of flexibility, at really, no cost. I think the more options (to > > a point:) the better. > > It just seems that some of the proposed config options are so obtuse and > subtle that the average man on the free unix might not understand it. For > such things, I believe a sensible default is more appropriate. For > example, a concept like "focus window on workspace change" is a behaviour > far too complex to convey adequatley in a configuration option, and the > change in behaviour this option toggles is so subtle that, imo, not many > would notice it if it were absent from the config menu.
Heh, are you, by chance, a ClickToFocus user? Because it seems to me that that option makes a hell of a lot of difference when you are using SloppyFocus. :) Also, if the menu entry doesn't make sense, then there should be a document describing what each option does more thoroughly. Make them understandable rather than remove them. > This, I believe, would be much the case for a "don't allow maximised > windows to be moved" option. If you don't want to move them, then don't! > ;) xOr -- I am damn unsatisfied to be killed in this way.
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