On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 10:37:48PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote: > > > Why do you want to continue to use it, out of interest? Have I > > > overlooked some critical piece of functionality? > > > > Well, I think it required no maintenance whatsoever in the last > > fifteen years, it's nicely integrated with the graphics library of > > fvwm (i.e. it can do all the image manipulation that fvwm can do), > > and I'm not sure xsetroot is able to deal with Ewmh desktop > > windows(?).
> I'm just really keen to try to avoid adding in more and more > code. I know in this case the example is fairly > benign, but it's always easier to add things than it is to remove them, I agree to everything, ... > and I consider things like image/wallpaper setters the job of external > tools. ... but as far as I know, fvwm-root is simply the best tool to set a wallpaper that exists. As long as nobody is going to take it over as a separate project, we shouldn't remoe if from the distro. Please note that I have *not* revived any of the myriad of removed gui modules, none of the scripts and not Xpm and Svg support (I'm not comfortable with thee image formats being removed, but I'd give it a try and maybe think about an on-the-fly converter later). And I also agree that eventually removen FvwmCpp is a good thing if we find another way to provide its functionality. In other words: I'm not adding back just every random stuff I am using, and I can think of some more stuff to remove (e.g. the Repeat command). Ciao Dominik ^_^ ^_^ -- Dominik Vogt
