Hi, Thanks again for responding to my e-mail!
On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 15:06:49 +0000 Thomas Adam <tho...@fvwm.org> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 11:18:14PM -0500, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have been looking at the fvwm RPM for fedora and i noticed that the > > following patches are in there: > > > > fvwm-0005-Explicitly-link-against-fontconfig.patch > > This has long since been fixed in 2.6.X, AFAIK. > > > fvwm-2.5.21-menu-generate.patch > > Redundant with fvwm-menu-desktop, although work is underway to improve it. > > > fvwm-2.5.30-mimeopen.patch > > fvwm-2.5.30-more-mouse-buttons.patch > > fvwm-2.5.30-xdg-open.patch > > For these, see: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/fvwm-workers@fvwm.org/msg02776.html > > > There is also the following: > > fvwm-xdg-menu.py > > Redundant? > > > From looking at the archives, it is not clear to me if the last one > > should be included/excluded? Are any of the above no longer necessary > > for fvwm-2.6.4? > > See above. > > > Separately, I also was wondering: do any of these patches conflict with > > the following more commonly used patches (for Gentoo/ArchLinux)? > > No. They're not supported. > > > Finally, does anyone here know what is going on wrt Fedora's fvwm? > > Bugzilla requests there do not seem to have been even checked out for > > months, sometimes years, and it is not clear whether the WM has any > > support or not. > > I'm hoping Jason Tibbitts will respond as he knows a little about what > Fedora do, but as far as I am concerned, I only work with what's posted > here, upstream. Hence, if you don't report bugs, they won't get fixed. > > -- Thomas Adam > So, I just wanted to be sure: none of the above-mentioned packages are of much use anymore, is that correct? Also, are any of the patches in the ArchLinux/Gentoo builds already included/proposed to be so in fvwm? I wanted to put together a local RPM for fvwm, and I therefore wanted to know. Does Jason Tibbitts have involvement with the Fedora RPM? From what I see there, it appears to be maintained by someone called Peter Lemenkov: however, there has been very little action there for a long time? Many thanks and best wishes, Ranjan
