On 12 Mar 2002 14:41:09 -0500, Dan Espen wrote: > > Mikhael Goikhman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I think this may be a good opportunity to discontinue this functionality. > > Tiled pixmap borders as they are now just don't work. I would guess noone > > likes the fact that the top and left borders look constantly, while the > > bottom and right borders look randomly for different windows. It is pretty > > impossible to find a good pixmap to use for tiling as it is now. > > > > I would like to hear from anyone who uses tiled pixmaps whether he agrees > > with a different approach to tiling. I personaly don't think a border look > > should be dependent on the window size. I think it is better to add a > > functionality to define 1, 2 or 4 tiles that are used (after a possible > > manipulation) for different border sides, so they are always look constant > > independently from the window size. It is ok for me that there will be 4 > > crossing points at corner pieces, in the future this may be configurable. > > I don't disagree with your main point except to say that I think > that there are some pixmaps that look fine for borders: > > http://www.fvwm.org/screenshots/Dan-desk-1280x1024.gif > > There is no up or down to that texture.
Yes, it may work well if: * large monotonous "random noise" tile is used * wide border width is specified (wider than the average noice size?) * a user likes such kind of "flying" borders (with no up and down) For all other cases it does not seem to produce a good result. With a new approach any pixmap may be used. I think the pixmaps with no up and down should work well in a new approach too. The benefits are: less random look and almost perfect opaque resize and shading (because almost no parts of the border are changed). The only problem I see is how to nicely fill the tiny corner pieces... I would like to solve this to the everyone's satisfaction if possible. In the end it will be up to Dominik to decide whether to implement one or another tiling aproach or both. I think the previous try at border tiling was not successful to be a general solution and thus may be replaced. Regards, Mikhael. -- Visit the official FVWM web page at <URL:http://www.fvwm.org/>. To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscribe fvwm-workers" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To report problems, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
