Re: FVWM: GSoC 2012: Project ideas

2012-02-27 Thread Tethys .
2012/2/24 Thomas Adam tho...@fvwm.org: God no.  FVWM is not elitist.  People will either use it, or not.  People can have ideas, and do.  People will have opinions and share them.  Or not. But if/when they do, we'll discuss them, and sometimes good things come of them. This isn't endemic to

Re: FVWM: GSoC 2012: Project ideas

2012-02-25 Thread Thomas Adam
On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 08:47:12AM -0500, MK wrote: On Sat, 25 Feb 2012 11:16:58 + Thomas Adam tho...@fvwm.org wrote: But until we decide to do it that way, it's a little moot, and it would require some thought and design. Great for a project for GSoC I'd say, because thankfully

Re: FVWM: GSoC 2012: Project ideas

2012-02-25 Thread Thomas Adam
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 11:06:46AM +, Thomas Adam wrote: All, Whilst I appreciate that organisations need not worry about this until the end of February, I'll be moving house then so I need to start thinking about this now, rather than later. And to make a start on this, I've created

Re: FVWM: GSoC 2012: Project ideas

2012-02-24 Thread Thomas Adam
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 03:58:13PM -0700, msib...@crosswire.com wrote: SNIP [I really don't like biting for what is an obvious flamewar, but sometimes there's useful bits of fallacy which need busting through, so I'll be picking those up and side-stepping the bait.] FVWM is not more portable

Re: FVWM: GSoC 2012: Project ideas

2012-02-24 Thread Chris Siebenmann
Here are two thoughts on relatively self-contained potential FVWM GSoC projects: * a module that is the inverse of FvwmCommand; call it FvwmQuery. Where FvwmCommand allows shell scripts to send commands to FVWM, FvwmQuery would allow them to get information from it. The FVWM module

Re: FVWM: GSoC 2012: Project ideas

2012-02-23 Thread msibley
A scratch rewrite in C++, using WxWidgets and embedding the configuration elements in sqlite, killing configuration files for good and ever. There is a point at which you are doing yourself a favor by shooting the horse instead of feeding it. Not trying to piss anyone off. IMHO, I'm just

Re: FVWM: GSoC 2012: Project ideas

2012-02-23 Thread Mag. Dr. Nikolaus Klepp
Am Donnerstag, 23. Februar 2012 schrieb msib...@crosswire.com: A scratch rewrite in C++, using WxWidgets and embedding the configuration elements in sqlite, killing configuration files for good and ever. There is a point at which you are doing yourself a favor by shooting the horse instead of

Re: FVWM: GSoC 2012: Project ideas

2012-02-23 Thread msibley
Original Message Subject: Re: FVWM: GSoC 2012: Project ideas From: Jaimos Skriletz jai...@diamond.boisestate.edu Date: Thu, February 23, 2012 4:32 pm To: fvwm@fvwm.org On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 01:34:38PM -0700, msib...@crosswire.com wrote: Not trying to piss anyone off. IMHO

Re: FVWM: GSoC 2012: Project ideas

2012-02-17 Thread Thomas Adam
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 10:33:51AM -0500, MK wrote: On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 09:45:07 + Thomas Adam tho...@fvwm.org wrote: No more so than Name, or Resource would be, yes. Those are passed thru from xlib, correct? I did not realize fvwm used all that, I've only ever just used the name, but

Re: FVWM: GSoC 2012: Project ideas

2012-02-17 Thread Thomas Adam
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 08:38:06PM +0100, Thomas Funk wrote: Thomas Adam tho...@fvwm.org wrote: Comments welcome, or even ideas. What about - RANDR support? Switching resolutions without restart Fvwm would be nice. This one is fine. I've already a head-start in this. - extend FvwmForm?

Re: FVWM: GSoC 2012: Project ideas

2012-02-17 Thread Jaimos Skriletz
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 08:06:46PM +, Thomas Adam wrote: On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 08:38:06PM +0100, Thomas Funk wrote: Thomas Adam tho...@fvwm.org wrote: Comments welcome, or even ideas. Another suggestion for possible projects (seems this list is getting big so any presepctive

Re: FVWM: GSoC 2012: Project ideas

2012-02-17 Thread Thomas Adam
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 01:44:12PM -0700, Jaimos Skriletz wrote: 1) Modify/extend the current menu system to offer more configurability, the main thing I am looking for here is say allow for multiple mouse bindings per menu entry (a right click and left click could do different things). I

Re: FVWM: GSoC 2012: Project ideas

2012-02-17 Thread Thomas Adam
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 02:10:54PM -0700, Jaimos Skriletz wrote: 2) Rewrite the menu syntax and redsign the object, there was some talk about this on the mailing list years ago now and some good ideas for And the link to that thread is?

Re: FVWM: GSoC 2012: Project ideas

2012-02-17 Thread Dan Espen
Thomas Adam tho...@fvwm.org writes: On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 02:10:54PM -0700, Jaimos Skriletz wrote: 2) Rewrite the menu syntax and redsign the object, there was some talk about this on the mailing list years ago now and some good ideas for And the link to that thread is?

Re: FVWM: GSoC 2012: Project ideas

2012-02-17 Thread Dan Espen
Thomas Adam tho...@fvwm.org writes: On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 05:49:00PM -0500, Dan Espen wrote: Thomas Adam tho...@fvwm.org writes: On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 02:10:54PM -0700, Jaimos Skriletz wrote: 2) Rewrite the menu syntax and redsign the object, there was some talk about this on

Re: FVWM: GSoC 2012: Project ideas

2012-02-16 Thread Dan Espen
Thomas Adam tho...@fvwm.org writes: All, Whilst I appreciate that organisations need not worry about this until the end of February, I'll be moving house then so I need to start thinking about this now, rather than later. Now that 2.6.0 is out, I'm proposing the following project (some of

Re: FVWM: GSoC 2012: Project ideas

2012-02-16 Thread Thomas Adam
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 09:57:28AM -0500, Dan Espen wrote: Thomas Adam tho...@fvwm.org writes: All, Whilst I appreciate that organisations need not worry about this until the end of February, I'll be moving house then so I need to start thinking about this now, rather than later.

Re: FVWM: GSoC 2012: Project ideas

2012-02-16 Thread Dan Espen
Thomas Adam tho...@fvwm.org writes: On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 09:57:28AM -0500, Dan Espen wrote: I'd like to see the initial appearance issue get some attention. I'm working close to that area: Right now, I'm trying to understand xdg menus. We make an entry in the FvwmMenu marked: D:

Re: FVWM: GSoC 2012: Project ideas

2012-02-16 Thread MK
On Thu, 16 Feb 2012 11:06:46 + Thomas Adam tho...@fvwm.org wrote: Now that 2.6.0 is out, I'm proposing the following project (some of which are a continuation from previous GSoC proposals) -- none of which are listed in any order. * Style clean-up (Difficulty: Easy): This would