On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, Dominik Vogt wrote:
On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 11:46:45AM +0700, Dmitry Yu. Bolkhovityanov wrote:
On Thu, 16 Aug 2001, Dominik Vogt wrote:
On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 08:30:20PM +0700, Dmitry Yu. Bolkhovityanov wrote:
I've added an optional global switch, which means that
maximization should be made on a global screen, otherwise it is made on
the screen where the center of a window is. grow* are also adjusted
(that turned to be the easiest part of the task).
I have been thinking about an entirely different approach that
uses XGeometry specs:
Maximize on [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The problem here is to specify the resize unit (screen % or
pixels) and where to place the grow option. The same syntax
could be used for the Move, Resize and ResizeMove commands.
IMHO these two approaches aren't contradictory
That's true, but I don't think we would want to develop a
second syntax. My idea was to support maximizing/moving/resizing
only with the new, X geometry like syntax and phase out the old
one.
Okay, but there are two issues.
First, while the geometry syntax is mathematically okay, it is
just too complicated (messy?) for an ordinary user -- like a Perl program
for a person which knows only Pascal. I don't want to say that users are
silly, but 640pxgrow-5+0p is a bit too much.
BTW, this syntax employs latin letters for three different uses:
1) unit size (p); 2) keywords (grow); 3) times/multiplication operator
(x); and all these go without any separators. While this is definitely
parseable, it isn't very fancy and is too error-prone.
Anyway, can you please post a formal definition of new syntax,
like a BNF?
Sorry for only criticizing, but I yet have to find out some
reasonable suggestions.
Second, due to compatibility reasons, the old syntax should still
be supported. Otherwise most users of =2.4 (especially those with 1
monitor) will live with old versions, and in some cases even
fvwmNN_convert wouldn't be able to help them (think about AnotherLevel and
alikes).
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Dmitry Yu. Bolkhovityanov
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The Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics
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