The current colorset functionality is simply amazing, but I feel that
something is not complete. I am trying to see what.
1) Colorsets in menus.
We still don't have full ActiveColorset support including images or
gradients. And it would be nice to support Transparent in it similarly to
FvwmIconMan and FvwmButtons. I.e. it is possible to get active item
background by just tinting the normal background (a part of a big image).
Greyed items in menus may support the same things using transparent or
even non transparent GreyedColorset. It is ok with me if the
compatibility is broken and it should be marked Transparent to have what
we currently have. Unless there are technical problems to achieve this.
BTW, GreyedColorset seems to be broken in cvs.
2) Colorsets in window decorations.
I see small advantages in how windows ignore most of the things defined in
Colorset/HighlighColorset and use TitleStyle Colorset as filters for
different title states. But I think it will not be very inconsistent to
fully apply Colorset/HighlighColorset (not just fg/bg) and start
TitleStyle Colorset from non plain colorset. This way some titlebar
designs would not need TitleStyle at all, this includes half of the
current fvwm-themes themes. Of course this is not trivial, since it
involves the issues like different states and UseTitleStyle, but I hope it
is solvable. I think it is good to support Colorset/HighlighColorset
fully. If we do this, Main from MultiPixmap probably may be removed as
redundant (and I don't worry that this means a design with MultiPixmap
can't be done without colorsets). I think it also may mean that it is
possible to use Transparent and not just RootTransparent in Style
Colorset, but this is not really important.
Similarly to BorderStyle vus BorderColorset.
3) Root Transparency.
It would be very useful to have the following functionality in fvwm-root
using "-d -r" or similar option. Read the current random root background,
(re)create an image from it and then retain it. I hope this does not sound
meaningless. This way anyone who wants to use RootTransparent should run
one command and it would work regardless of the current background.
4) In FvwmPager it would be nice to have {Hilight}TitleColorset, the
current plain rectangle taken from HilightColorset is really not enough.
5) Colorset HueRotation (recoloring). Should be more useful that Tint in
some situations. Would be nice to have.
I didn't try yet different combinations of Icon{Background,Title}Colorset,
but it looks very good with nice tile.
Regards,
Mikhael.
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