Re: FVWM: Fvwm Themes rfc?

From: Dan Espen <dane_at_mk.telcordia.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 14:11:03 -0500

Kendrick Vargas <ken_at_hudat.com> writes:
> On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Matthew W. Roberts wrote:
>
> > There are obviously many ideas about themes and how to implement
> > them. I'm wondering ... would it make sense to take an rfc approach
> > with this issue? I would be willing to coordinate such an effort
> > if that would help. I'm not an FVWM expert by any means, but I
> > am willing to do what I can.
>
> sounds good to me. If we could get a standard going, it would make it
> easier and more uniform in order to break up configs and have drop in
> themes. As long as my ls -lad .fvwm* looks like ".fvwm2/" I have no issues
> :)

In the 2.3.x series, we have new functionality that relates to this.

If you export FVWM_USERHOME="$HOME/.fvwm", you can then say
"Read Theme1" and it attempts to first read
"$HOME/.fvwm/Theme1" and then in "<install_prefix>/etc/fvwm/Theme1".

This allows Theme1 to exist in either place so you could use the installed
version, or your own copy.

The other way to do this is to make the read command specify
the sub-directory:

"Read .fvwm/Theme1"

If we are going to have site-wide themes, this gets a little ugly.
The file would be "<install_prefix>/etc/fvwm/.fvwm/Theme1".

I have to admit, there are some gaps in how I see this thing
being designed...

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