Dominik Vogt <fvwm-workers@fvwm.org> writes: > In my eyes, implementing contitional styles breaks up into three > things: features, performance and design of the code. Here are my > thoughts. > > 1) Possible features > > - Regular expression matching in styles. > - Tell fvwm to only match by name or by icon name or by > resource or by class. > - Styles tied to window ids (some kind of enhanced window > state); destroy when the window dies. > - Styles depending on window state, e.g. styles that are > applied to maximized or sicky windows. This offers much > more flexibility for individual windows. > - ... > > 2) Performance > > - State dependent styles may cause serious performance > problems since the window's style has to be checked > whenever its state changes. Perhaps it's possible to give > each window a flags structure that marks which states do > not use the default style? > > 3) Design of the code > > - Clean and easy to understand. I'd prefer to keep only a > single list of styles. > - There must be some way to find out which parts of the > window style have to be changed when the window state > changes. Otherwise, state changes would become visually > unpleasant (the whole window is redecorated). > > Any comments, more features, states, etc.?
I don't understand the motivation for some of the more elaborate solutions. Starting with a simple: Style [Class=XTerm,Name=dumbo*] ... would handle 99% of the need. I don't see how the performance would be any different than the current wildcard matching to 3 possible names. I know theres additional logic, I just don't think it amounts to anything we have to worry about. In some cases, there is less matching, I know thats the way I intend to use it, Ie. just supply the class as a backup for my xterms that I don't match by name. -- Dan Espen 444 Hoes Lane Room RRC 1C-214 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Piscataway, NJ 08854 Phone: (732) 699-5570 -- Visit the official FVWM web page at <URL:http://www.fvwm.org/>. To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscribe fvwm-workers" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To report problems, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
