Re: FVWM: Deprecating certain Fvwm* modules

2011-10-28 Thread John Latham
So how do you make sure theres consistency with features behaving as they should By fixing bugs? E.g. Thomas' change to titleformat. Weve already seen how bad this can be with... i think its titleformat not showing any number between brackets if theres only one of them on the screen. to

Re: FVWM: Deprecating certain Fvwm* modules

2011-10-27 Thread Thomas Adam
On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 09:10:21AM +0100, Harry portobello wrote: On 26 October 2011 15:45, Bert Geens b...@lair.be wrote: I'm sure someone(tm) can come up with an FvwmButtons config that looks and acts like FvwmTaskBar. i'd want to review it so it is OK - how do i do that? so far I'll

Re: FVWM: Deprecating certain Fvwm* modules

2011-10-27 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Thomas Adam, Am 2011-10-25 09:11:26, hacktest Du folgendes herunter: That's just tough, I'm afraid. That mail checker is all but useless with today's email usage; it doesn't do IMAP for example, and even at the time when it was written, tools which provide its equivalent functionality,

Re: FVWM: Deprecating certain Fvwm* modules

2011-10-25 Thread Thomas Adam
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 09:06:42PM +0100, John Latham wrote: So, here's a list of modules I wish to see deprecated, with reasons why: * FvwmCommand * FvwmConsole These two are the only ones on the list I really care about, I use FvwmCommand in my Emacs mode to just execute parts

Re: FVWM: Deprecating certain Fvwm* modules

2011-10-25 Thread Thomas Adam
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 06:54:09PM +0100, Harry portobello wrote: don't know anything about. There's no thought gone in to this and will force users to learn things they didn't need to before. I am also amazed that mail checking is now left up to the user when it's built in to FvwmTaskBar

Re: FVWM: Deprecating certain Fvwm* modules

2011-10-24 Thread despen
Harry portobello harryportobe...@gmail.com writes: Hi, On 22 October 2011 11:23, Thomas Adam tho...@fvwm.org wrote: Hello all, This has been a while coming since 2.6.0 was released.  But I said at the time that since there was no longer ever going to be a split between stable/unstable,

Re: FVWM: Deprecating certain Fvwm* modules

2011-10-24 Thread Bert Geens
On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 12:23 PM, Thomas Adam tho...@fvwm.org wrote: Hello all, This has been a while coming since 2.6.0 was released.  But I said at the time that since there was no longer ever going to be a split between stable/unstable, and that there was only ever rolling-stable releases,

Re: FVWM: Deprecating certain Fvwm* modules

2011-10-24 Thread John Latham
So, here's a list of modules I wish to see deprecated, with reasons why: * FvwmCommand * FvwmConsole These two are the only ones on the list I really care about, I use FvwmCommand in my Emacs mode to just execute parts of my config without having to copy/paste to FvwmConsole. But a

Re: FVWM: Deprecating certain Fvwm* modules

2011-10-23 Thread Adam Sjøgren
On Sat, 22 Oct 2011 11:23:49 +0100, Thomas wrote: This has been a while coming since 2.6.0 was released. But I said at the time that since there was no longer ever going to be a split between stable/unstable, and that there was only ever rolling-stable releases, that there was now never any

Re: FVWM: Deprecating certain Fvwm* modules

2011-10-22 Thread Harry portobello
Hi, On 22 October 2011 11:23, Thomas Adam tho...@fvwm.org wrote: Hello all, This has been a while coming since 2.6.0 was released.  But I said at the time that since there was no longer ever going to be a split between stable/unstable, and that there was only ever rolling-stable releases,

Re: FVWM: Deprecating certain Fvwm* modules

2011-10-22 Thread John Latham
Is this really the right thing to do? Really? How did you come up with this list of depreciated modules to start with? What happens if someone with a config theyve had for ages needs to use a module youve depreciated? Will you personally have to provide the functions of that module in some