I am going to rename a number of styles and commands that were
introduced in 2.5. These are the general rules I follow when
renaming, removing changing features:
Features that were in any stable release:
- Must be kept for compatibility if possible at all.
Features that are new to the current development series:
- Can be changed, removed or renamed without mentioning it in
the documentation.
[Reason: otherwise, development would become too difficult
and the documentation confusing]
- Such a change should be mentioned on the mailing list.
- The change is documented in the ChangeLog.
- Any entries in the NEWS about the feature are rewritten so
that it looks like the feature was originally written in the
new form.
[Reason: The NEWS finally becomes the ANNOUNCE for the next
stable release. The risk of posting incorrect information
is too high. The NEWS should reflect the current state, not
document the changes (use ChangeLog).]
A bit off topic: a rule of thumb for new features:
- *Every* new keyword (command name, style name, option of a
command etc.) must appear in the NEWS.
This is the list of changes I am going to make:
Commands
EWMHBaseStrut -> EWMHBaseStruts
There are always four struts, hence the plural.
DesktopName -> DeskName
Some commands use "desk" and other "desktop". This should be
cleaned up for 3.0, but not now.
Styles
Border -> Borders
For future extensions treating all the borders separately.
NoBorder -> remove
I do not use negative style names anymore. In the future, I
intend to remove them all and replace them with !stylename.
PlacementOverlapPenalties -> MinOverlapPlacementPenalties
PlacementOverlapPercentPenalties
-> MinOverlapPercentPlacementPenalties
For consistency with the placement style names.
Bye
Dominik ^_^ ^_^
--
Dominik Vogt, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--
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]
