On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 05:49:33AM -0400, Suzanne Britton wrote:
> > i like programs to do exactly what i like them to do, no
> > matter if i have to spend 2 days configuring them
>
> Yes! I could write a 10-page rant about arrogant applications that
> think they're smarter than the user.
>
> One of the things I love about fvwm is the single, hand-tweakable configuration
> file, and the fact that fvwm doesn't write over it unless you darned well tell
> it to. I'm fed up with config files that take up whole directory trees, get
> written out every time you quit whether you changed the config or not, and/or
> have threatening headers like "<automatically generated, do not edit!>"
> Blegh. Why don't you use a proprietary binary format, while you're at it?
Hey, I might get some ideas for the .fvwm2rc format! :-)=)
> > so, the thing that always bothered me is why people started
> > new wm projects, as opposed to helping out with existing
> > ones, like fvwm?
>
> Well, count me in as someone who's trying to help out with fvwm :-) I've
> created a patch to make titlebars more themable, but right now it's heavily in
> development and I've only been posting it on fvwm-workers. For a preview of
> its abilities, check out the screenshots at http://www.igs.net/~tril/fvwm/.
>
> I think one of the problems with fvwm is that it is vastly underrated.
So true. Fvwm is often referred to in statements like 'blablaWM
can be configured for the simple fvwm look as well as ...'. And
just look at the config that comes with SuSE! It's so ugly, I
can't even fathom why I ever chose fvwm.
> Few people seem to know how beautiful it can be, as well as functional.
Bye
Dominik ^_^ ^_^
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Dominik Vogt, dominik.vogt_at_gmx.de
Reply-To: dominik.vogt_at_gmx.de
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Received on Wed Oct 10 2001 - 11:21:49 BST