Re: FVWM: Stepping down from next year.

2011-11-07 Thread John Latham
Having a single maintainer is too much of a burden. I've always been surprised that anyone would take on that role. Yes, that's probably true. I think Thomas is at the end of his power. The permanent attacks against him the last time weren't very cooperative at all ... Wait a moment:

Re: FVWM: Deprecating certain Fvwm* modules

2011-10-28 Thread John Latham
So how do you make sure theres consistency with features behaving as they should By fixing bugs? E.g. Thomas' change to titleformat. Weve already seen how bad this can be with... i think its titleformat not showing any number between brackets if theres only one of them on the screen. to

Re: FVWM: Deprecating certain Fvwm* modules

2011-10-24 Thread John Latham
Both FvwmComand and FvwmConsole are used a lot, so the goal is to replace= them with a more verstile tool. They won't be removed until this tool is= functional, been tested in many situations and people have had plenty of= time to change their configs. As I thought, thanks. One thing to

Re: FVWM: Deprecating certain Fvwm* modules

2011-10-24 Thread John Latham
So, here's a list of modules I wish to see deprecated, with reasons why: * FvwmCommand * FvwmConsole These two are the only ones on the list I really care about, I use FvwmCommand in my Emacs mode to just execute parts of my config without having to copy/paste to FvwmConsole. But a

Re: FVWM: Deprecating certain Fvwm* modules

2011-10-22 Thread John Latham
Is this really the right thing to do? Really? How did you come up with this list of depreciated modules to start with? What happens if someone with a config theyve had for ages needs to use a module youve depreciated? Will you personally have to provide the functions of that module in some

Re: FVWM: Desktops versus Pages - how to use?

2008-05-22 Thread John Latham
I've never quite made my mind up whether to use several Desktops or several Pages on one desktop, what are the reasons (if any) for choosing one or the other? I've never found any use for running a program with a window larger than my screen size, I rarely (but very occasionally) would like

Re: FVWM: Desktops versus Pages - how to use?

2008-05-22 Thread John Latham
From: John Latham [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 18:54:17 +0100 (BST) * Pages are used as more desk space within each `task', e.g. I might have a web browser open on the Java API in the page next to the one I am writing code in: I can just slide between the two

Re: FVWM: Desktops versus Pages - how to use?

2008-05-22 Thread John Latham
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 07:15:46PM +0100, John Latham wrote: From: John Latham [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 18:54:17 +0100 (BST) * Pages are used as more desk space within each `task', e.g. I might have a web browser open on the Java API in the page next to the one

Re: FVWM: acrobat/adobe reader, firefox and FVWM

2008-04-09 Thread John Latham
... On my system if I go full screen (control-L in acrobat reader), the CONTENT of the PDF document occupies entirely my screen (as it should be), no borders, no titlebar. On the laptop instead when I hit control-L in acrobat reader, there is also the window manager decoration. Which is