Dominik Vogt <fvwm_at_fvwm.org> writes:
> On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 04:45:13PM -0400, Kendrick Vargas wrote:
> > Has there been any work done towards making background pixmaps more
> > customizable (sorta like what Sawmill does). By this, I mean the ability
> > to have a pixmap specifically for the text of the title bar, then another
> > pixmap for the remaining space, and pixmaps up and down the different
> > directions of the borders?
>
> No.
>
> > Anyone who's used the default theme for Sawmill on a recent Ximian Gnome
> > install should understand what I'm talking about. I thought that since
> > Enlightenment came out, some of this functionality would get worked into
> > fvwm2, but I don't even see that any work has started yet. I could be
> > wrong, I haven't looked at the code itself, but there's nothing in the man
> > pages :-)
>
> Actually, two years ago there was a common consensus between the
> developers not to go this way. We were much more concerned with
> functionality than with looks.
I think we also agreed that if someone wanted to go overboard
on frame decoration, it would have to be done in a module
or a separately loaded shared library.
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Received on Tue Sep 25 2001 - 10:04:21 BST