On 10:26 07 Jan 2003, Dominik Vogt <fvwm-workers@fvwm.org> wrote:
| On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 08:57:04AM +0000, Mikhael Goikhman wrote:
| > On 07 Jan 2003 06:51:41 +0100, Dominik Vogt wrote:
| > >
| > > On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 12:18:08PM +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote:
| > > > On 22:50 06 Jan 2003, Marcus Lundblad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| > > > | My plan is to remove the unnessesay
| > > > | "Closable","Maximizable","Iconifiable" and "AllowMaximizeFixedSize"
| > > > | since they correspond to "!" variants of
| > > > | "Unclosable","Unmaximizable","Uniconifiable" and
| > > > | "DisallowMaximizeFixedSize"
[...]
| > > > Could I cast a vote for NOT doing it this way?
| > > > You should keep "Closable" and discard "Unclosable", using "!Closable"
| > > > and so forth. All these attributes should be positive statements.
| > > > Likewise there shouldn't be any "Disallow*" options, just Allow*
| > > > and !Allow*.
| > > >
| > > > This issue is entirely separate from what the defaults are.
| > >
| > > I agree 100%.
| >
| > The weak side of this is that a user has no any indication of what is the
| > normal window behaviour. Other than this I have no problem to name options
| > regardless of their default.
|
| The default is written out in the man page. It is always the last
| style of all the alternatives. For example,
|
| !AllowMaximize / Allow Maximize
|
| means that AllowMaximize is the default.
I have to say I've never realised this. Could someone (Dan?) put a paragraph
break
after the words:
options is a comma separated list containing one or more of the
following keywords. Each group of style names is separated by
slashes ('/'). The last style in these groups is the
default."
I know I for one missed this. My fault of course.
Cheers,
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Cameron Simpson, DoD#743 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/
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forever. - Garrison Keillor
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