On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 01:26:41AM +0000, Mikhael Goikhman wrote: > I already started this topic several times in the past, but it seems > noone else worries about this. I worry, so I will implement this soon. > In short, ".fvwm2rc" name has 3 small problems as explained in todo-2.6.
In my eyes, it might be better to do this with 3.0 in order to do all the disrupting changes in one release. Users get the feeling we are constantly breaking compatibility if we do such changes in small doses. Other than that, I have no strong opinion about the issue. > I suggested either ~/.fvwm/main or ~/.fvwm/config variants in the past. > The second one seems to be the most intuitive. Also ~/.*/main does not > return anything for me, and ~/.*/config returns 12 application config > files in my home directory. ~/.fvwm/config is better > Currently fvwm searches for the starting config file in 5 places, I will > add 2 more places, i.e. $FVWM_USERDIR/config and $FVWM_DATADIR/config. > Some places (like ~/.fvwm2rc in $HOME) should be removed, either before > or after 2.6.0. After - namely for 3.0 (i.e. 2.6.1 ?). > Of course, ~/.fvwm/.fvwm2rc should stay for some years. Dito. It shouldn't be called .fvwm2rc once 3.0 is on the way. > Another thing I will do later is to go throw all zillions places > containing the string ".fvwm2rc" and replace it with "~/.fvwm/config". I'm not sure this is wise at the moment. Too many people are reading documentation that comes from a different version. They may be utterly confused if they miss that fact. As ugly as it may be, I suggest to write both, .fvwm2rc and .fvwm/config, until 3.0. > This way we will be completely free from "2" in our file names. > > Note that ~/.fvwm/config is designed to be the final fvwm config file. > A user may already dispatch it if he really wants, like: > > Test (Version 2.5.*) Read config-2.5 > Test (Version 2.6.*) Read config-2.6 By the way, this should definitely allow things like Test (Version [>|<|>=|<=] 2.5.7) ... Ciao Dominik ^_^ ^_^ -- 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]
