On 17 Jan 1997, Allen Brady Montz wrote:
> Tobias Oetiker <oetiker_at_ee.ethz.ch> writes:
>
> >
> > > The only changes are a new option which specifies whether to honor the
> > > window list that fvwm maintains when deciding which windows to manage, and
> > > I fixed a probable coredump-inducing bug.
> >
> > a request:
> >
> > I would like to have my iconman swallowed in the toolbar ... but as it keeps
> > changing size this is difficult ... wouldn't it be possible to have it
> > assume a fixed size and scrollbar for inclusion in the toolbar ?
> >
> > I am no X programmer, otherwise I would send you a patch ...
> >
> > cheers
> > tobi
>
> I'm currently rewriting all of the X code for FvwmIconMan, firstly so that
> it's as optimal as I can humanly make it with respect to redrawing, secondly
> so that I can make it not keep unmapping and mapping itself, and thirdly to add
> multiple columns, and the ability to grow horizontally as well as vertically.
>
> With multiple columns, and horizontal growth, it's very simple to bound the
> size of the window, and have it just keep adding columns (which get
> progreessively narrower, like the windows95 taskbar) as it adds icons. As with
> any rewrite though, it's taking an unbounded amount of time as other things
> have higher priority. I'm going to get back to it this weekend though.
>
> As for a scrollbar, I hadn't thought of that. I'm not using any sort of widget
> library though, so that could get tricky. I'll have to ponder the options.
the reason I am asking is, that I have found the following setup to be very
conveniant ...
[...]
*FvwmButtons(2x13, Frame 0, Padding 0 0,\
Swallow(NoHints) FvwmIconBox FvwmIconBox)
[...]
# FvwmIconBox
*FvwmIconBoxPlacement left top
*FvwmIconBoxHilightFocusWin
*FvwmIconBoxBack gray74
*FvwmIconBoxIconBack LightSteelBlue3
*FvwmIconBoxIconFore Black
*FvwmIconBoxIconHiBack PaleVioletRed3
*FvwmIconBoxIconHiFore Black
*FvwmIconBoxHideSC horizontal
*FvwmIconBoxMaxIconSize 69x0
*FvwmIconBoxSetWMIconSize 48x48
*FvwmIconBoxLines 1
*FvwmIconBoxPadding 1
*FvwmIconBoxSBWidth 8
*FvwmIconBox "Fvwm*" -
*FvwmIconBoxFont 10x9
*FvwmIconBoxMouse 1 Click RaiseLower
*FvwmIconBoxMouse 1 DoubleClick Iconify
*FvwmIconBoxFrameWidth 0 0
*FvwmIconBoxSortIcons ResName
unfortuantely the IconBox does not like it, when its icon size is set to 0.
it complains loudly on every new window ... I have sent a bug report to the
list about this, but nobody seems to care ...
and looking at the diffs ftom 43 to 44 the code for the IconBox seems not to
ahve been changed much ...
well that's why I thought your tool might prove to be more suited to the
task ...
cheers
tobi
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Received on Fri Jan 17 1997 - 15:37:00 GMT