On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 10:43:55AM -0400, A. Christine Spang wrote: > Hi Andreas, > > I looked this patch over today. Nice work! I just have one question: > > On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 04:18:33AM +0100, Andreas Bombe wrote: > > * Uses new configuration variable names > > > > Still works on non-composited screens with the old screenshot / manual > > compositing trick. Configuration format has changed so it uses the new > > variable names and all customization has to be redone. There is no > > automatic conversion. > > What was your reasoning behind changing the configuration format? It > seems that only two values have different formats: animosd_text and > animosd_fill. IMHO, it would be a better experience for the user if > their old configuration values were still used, but I'm interested in > hearing why it was useful/necessary to change the format.
Not all that much of necessity, using floats for color components was easier in the context of Cairo rendering whereas the old GTK drawing functions used the HTML like hex color specifiers directly. Basically it was just for reasons of simplicity of a first version. Same with the lack of conversion and using new variable names altogether. Now I think it wouldn't be too hard to convert to/from hex color specifiers for writing/reading configuration so I'll just implement that soon for the benefit of a seamless transition. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
