Le Fri, 13 Apr 2007 13:56:30 +0200, Thomas Kuther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit :
> On Fr, 13.04.07 11:50 Dominique Michel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > I am working with Marcej, the developer of Fvwm-Crystal, to incorpore > > Crystal audio features into Fvwm-Crystal. So it will be soon a new > > fvwm-crystal release and I will drop crystal audio. > > > > We was discussing it was some time ago to make a distribution from > > the overlay. I think at fvwm-crystal can be a good alternative to > > other WMs for a multimedia workstation. Fvwm-crystal is fvwm and it > > have 2 advantages over the other wm I know: It is very fast and > > incredibly flexible. > > > > fvwm-crystal have 2 advantages for a fvwm newbie: it is fully usable > > from the first run, and its modular configuration made it easier to > > learn as fvwm. > > > > What I am thinking here is at we can use Crystal Audio repository in > > order to make a custom Fvwm-crystal configuration trimmed for the > > overlay. FVWM have a very powerful feature: FVWMButton. With it, it > > is possible to make any kind of panels. They can be almost every > > thing: launcher for applications, trayer, monitors, whatever... > > > > So, if you think at it can be a good idea, I can keep alive Crystal > > audio website. Otherwise, I will close it. Another solution will be > > to make a repository for that on tuxfamily. The advantage on > > sourceforge is at it is possible to have a local darcs repository and > > rsync it with the repository on sourceforge. The advantage on > > tuxfamily is at we can use svn directly, but a little more work will > > be needed to get it to work with fvwm-crystal that use darcs (but > > it's trivial work in the Makefile). > > > > What are you thinking about this? > > > > And which features are missing in your WM for you regular audio work > > that you would like to see implemented? Almost everything is possible > > with a fvwmbutton, so just think about it. > > > > Dominique > > > > Sounds very interesting! I guess I have to take a look at FVWM crystal > one day. I just still love my E17 :) > > But I already switched from trayer to stalonetray, A LOT better than > trayer - and the FVWM buttons shown on their homepage make me wanna try > FVWM, hehe. Looks very interesting. > > Tom With the overlay, the simpler is to "emerge crystal-audio". It will install my fork of fvwmcrystal. It already use stalonetray with all the recipes. I bumped stalonetray ebuild yesterday to 0.6.3, it include some bug fixes. If using xdm (kdm, gdm), you will get one more choice: fvwm-crystal. Take a look into preferences/Startup under /usr/share/fvwm-crystal/fvwm. Just by copying this file into ~/.fvwm-crystal/preferences/Startup and commenting out 2 lines, qjackctl and glashctl will be launched at startup. It will be some changes in the next fvwm-crystal release, as a preference setting for trayer and stalonetray (most distributions do provide trayer but only a few are providing stalonetray). I am currently thinking about how to implement session management support with gnome-session inside fvwm-crystal. I already have an experimental recipe that work fine with it, but I must find a way to still be able to run gnome if an user want so. I see 2 possibilities for that: 1) use gnome-session capability to start different sessions. It would be simpler to implement. 2) use some kind of wrapper around gnome-session so at it will be able to automatically start fvwm-crystal or gnome. Ciao, Dominique -- Dominique Michel -- N.B.: Tous les emails que je reçois sont filtrés par spamassassin avant de me parvenir.
