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I sent my previous mail to the wrong mailing-list. Sorry.
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Subject: Improvments to fvwm
Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 11:47:32 +0800
From: Sylvain Bougerel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: fvwm-workers@fvwm.org
Hi,
I have been using many desktops like many users, and like most of us
finally sticked to Fvwm.
I am still sticking to it because, when I evaluate pro & cons, this is
the best ratio between lightness
(I am not a desktop guy) / configurability / eye-candyness.
However there is some odd setttings in Fvwm that many advanced
concurrent WM do not have,
and that obliged us to use tricks to fake other WM behaviors, which is
somehow annoying.
Here is what I would like to see in the comming release of Fvwm:
- Abandon of the old mwm-like decoration architecture, that is
<design-wise> obsolete.
Replacement by a user-defined set of rectangulars area forming the
decorations, and that
allow the use of shaped windows. It would be so nice to have round-edged
windows
without having to fake shaped windows with transparency ....
- A "normal" alt-tab behavior. May be the only Fvwm functionality that
cannot be too tunable,
but it would be good in one alt-tab pressure to switch to the last
window while holding on
the key display the window list. (Or may be there is a way to do it, but
I never found
something like that in fvwm)
- Possibility to set multicolored mouse cursors in fvwm.
- Optionaly, an integration of xcomponant in fvwm (by module or
else...). I would like to see
fading windows when I iconify or desiconify, for exemple.
Well, that's a lot, but if you take the current 2.5.14, you add thoses
functionalities, fvwm will
definetly become a weapon of choice for many more linux desktop
end-user. I think this list
of requirement functionalities can be easily extended, but among many
others, those listed
above are the ones I really like to see in fvwm.
As the current trend, they are more about eye-candyness than
functionalities, but I think
a respectable window manager like fvwm is a good alternative to the
supposably
too-full featured E17 and the heavyness of other desktops like gnome and
kde. It only
lacks some more eye-candy tweaking possibilities to me.
Regards,
Sylvain Bougerel.
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