>>>>> On Fri, 12 Apr 1996 08:33:38 -0600 (MDT), "Michael J. Carter"
>>>>> <mcarter_at_lanl.gov> said:
>>>>> "Charles" == Charles Hines <chuck_hines_at_VNET.IBM.COM> writes:
Charles> the infamous Great Style Flag Rewrite.
Michael> Will this add functionality or simply reimplement the
Michael> present features???
Per se, it won't add anything new, but it is the base needed to
implement more per-window stuff. For example, it is currently
impossible to specify per-window autoraise (FvwmAuto{,Raise} is an
all-or-nothing kind of thing); after TGSFR it will be rather easy to
add, I gather.
Michael> One of our sysadmins can't tear himself from tvtwm because
Michael> of it's ability to assign window border, icon and menu
Michael> entry colors on a per-menu-item basis.
He's got a menu where the first item is blue and the second is red?
Well... de gustibus non disputandem.
Michael> The other feature he's after is tvtwm's dynamic menus...
What are dynamic menus? Haven't used tvtwm in a couple of years now,
but I don't see why one shouldn't be able to do useful stuff with
functions.
With Fvwm you can put menu definitions in a file, then read that file
at run time to have these take effect. So, you write a shell script
that does:
echo AddToMenu Bla \"Item\" Exec xterm >> ~/.fvwm/foo-menu
And you can do
Read ~/.fvwm/foo-menu
from a menu or a keybinding. This seems to be Turing-complete. Can
tvtwm do better than this?
kai
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Received on Fri Apr 12 1996 - 10:11:58 BST