[ctwm] Re: Congrats on 3.7!

From: Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker (richard@levitte.org)
Date: Sun Jul 24 2005 - 05:37:41 CEST


In message <20050724025355.GA75072@thought.org> on Sat, 23 Jul 2005 19:53:55 -0700, Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> said:

kline> To every contributor to 3.7, hat's off!

On behalf of all contributors, thank you :-)

kline> It is outstanding++;

And there's still things to do with it. Like adapting to the new
Gnome/KDE specs.

kline> and following Richard's example of putting an "X" on the
kline> titlebar to kill the xterm|app, I have added 2 to do
kline> f.fullzoom and f.iconify. This more or less apes what
kline> most wmanagers do and what Doze does: kill, resize, iconify.
kline> I'm wondering if this should be the default. Builtin
kline> rather than done by hacking the ~/.ctmrc.

It's a good question, one which I've pondered myself... Or there
could be several system-wide configurations to choose from...

kline> Any any rate, on the CTWM website would it make sense to
kline> have as many examples of users' .xsession and .ctwmrc files
kline> with sample screenshots?

Uhm, I'm not exactly sure what you're trying to say. You have
probably seen there there *are* a bunch of user-provided examples, so
I wonder if you're trying to say there are too many?

The way I see CTWM (and you noted that yourself) is that it provides
an endless amount of hacking possibilities, and thereby provides
choices for a wide variety of personal preferences, so no wonder there
are many different examples on how to do things! I only see that as a
good thing, and I can understand it may be challenging for the newbie.

So I'm getting back to the idea of providing more than one system-wide
configuration. Does it make sense, and most of all, will we all be
able to agree on them? :-)

Cheers,
Richard

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