On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 10:44:41AM -0500, Dominik Vogt wrote:
> Yes, definitely - you are telling us no news. I think it's one of
> fvwm's major flaws. Fortunately, there is the fvwm-themes package
> nowadays, but we should do a better job of advertising it.
(I might be stating the obvious, so my apologies upfront if that's the case.)
Note though that fvwm-themes is not a panacea for new FVWM users... not yet. I
tried it a couple of days ago, and was seriously impressed by its power, but it
currently has one major flaw: scattered, scarce, and incomplete documentation
on making your own modifications/themes. What I think is needed is a single
text file/document which details how fvwm-themes works, as well as a complete
reference for writing your own flavours of all the components. As it is, with
the weak documentation, the user trades-in the "highly-modifiable-but-homely
initial configuration" for "it looks nice, but I'll be darned if I know how to
tweak this one feature which is bugging me". The latter can be often just as
frustrating as the former.
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Maciej Kalisiak mac "at" dgp.toronto.edu www.dgp.toronto.edu/~mac
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Received on Fri Jan 17 2003 - 12:15:25 GMT