Re: wmaker advancements and enhancements [was: Replace and be replaced]

2013-09-01 Thread Paul Seelig
On 09/02/2013 12:13 AM, SJS wrote: > I'd argue that this is not an _industry_ standard, only a _Microsoft_ > standard. And if I wanted the Microsoft UX, I'd use Microsoft Windows, > thankyouverymuch. > If i am not completely mistaken, this precedes MS Windows. I do not really bother using Windows

Re: wmaker advancements and enhancements [was: Replace and be replaced]

2013-09-01 Thread SJS
begin quoting Paul Seelig as of Sun, Sep 01, 2013 at 01:54:42PM +0200: [chop] > And while we are at it, there are some more feature enhancements which > would be very worthwhile to be added, but which strangely enough nobody > ever seems to have bothered about yet: > > - Enable copy'n'paste via i

Re: wmaker advancements and enhancements [was: Replace and be replaced]

2013-09-01 Thread Paul Seelig
On 09/01/2013 08:22 PM, Carlos R. Mafra wrote: > I don't think that "other window managers do" is a reason to include > code doing exoteric stuff and used once or twice in a lifetime > I guess it is a matter of perspective. Sometimes less is not more, even if it might appear so when having a first

Re: wmaker advancements and enhancements [was: Replace and be replaced]

2013-09-01 Thread Carlos R. Mafra
On Sun, 1 Sep 2013 at 21:56:40 +0200, Yaroslav Fedevych wrote: > On Sun, 2013-09-01 at 20:54 +0100, Carlos R. Mafra wrote: > > On Sun, 1 Sep 2013 at 21:23:02 +0200, Yaroslav Fedevych wrote: > > > On Sun, 2013-09-01 at 19:22 +0100, Carlos R. Mafra wrote: > > > > > > > When was the last time you w

Re: wmaker advancements and enhancements [was: Replace and be replaced]

2013-09-01 Thread Yaroslav Fedevych
On Sun, 2013-09-01 at 20:54 +0100, Carlos R. Mafra wrote: > On Sun, 1 Sep 2013 at 21:23:02 +0200, Yaroslav Fedevych wrote: > > On Sun, 2013-09-01 at 19:22 +0100, Carlos R. Mafra wrote: > > > > > When was the last time you wanted to --replace a window manager? > > > > > > > Speaking of me: did i

Re: wmaker advancements and enhancements [was: Replace and be replaced]

2013-09-01 Thread Carlos R. Mafra
On Sun, 1 Sep 2013 at 21:23:02 +0200, Yaroslav Fedevych wrote: > On Sun, 2013-09-01 at 19:22 +0100, Carlos R. Mafra wrote: > > > When was the last time you wanted to --replace a window manager? > > > > Speaking of me: did it every time I was interested in a window manager > development enough t

Re: wmaker advancements and enhancements [was: Replace and be replaced]

2013-09-01 Thread Yaroslav Fedevych
On Sun, 2013-09-01 at 19:22 +0100, Carlos R. Mafra wrote: > When was the last time you wanted to --replace a window manager? > Speaking of me: did it every time I was interested in a window manager development enough to run a bleeding edge version of it, to compare behaviours when anything went

Re: wmaker advancements and enhancements [was: Replace and be replaced]

2013-09-01 Thread Carlos R. Mafra
On Sun, 1 Sep 2013 at 13:54:42 +0200, Paul Seelig wrote: > On 08/29/2013 11:32 AM, Iain Patterson wrote: > > Quoth I, > > > >> This patch allows wmaker to replace existing window managers with the > >> --replace flag, like xfwm4 and metacity can. It also allows those > >> window managers (or ano

Re: wmaker advancements and enhancements [was: Replace and be replaced]

2013-09-01 Thread Yaroslav Fedevych
On Sun, 2013-09-01 at 13:54 +0200, Paul Seelig wrote: > The other thing is that WINGs theming is severely limited, if not even > simply broken when trying to integrate it with applications using other > widget sets like gtk+ and qt. The latter can both be tricked to take on > that NeXTish look (whi

wmaker advancements and enhancements [was: Replace and be replaced]

2013-09-01 Thread Paul Seelig
On 08/29/2013 11:32 AM, Iain Patterson wrote: > Quoth I, > >> This patch allows wmaker to replace existing window managers with the >> --replace flag, like xfwm4 and metacity can. It also allows those >> window managers (or another wmaker) to replace wmaker in the same way. > >From a user's point