FVWM: Some items on a wish list

[kilgota]

Hi.

After some recent experiences setting up an old laptop, I noticed the 
following, which some might regard as shortcomings. If anyone who has more 
knowledge about how the internals of fvwm are put together would like to 
do a little hand-holding, then I am quite willing (and probably able, 
though not familiar with the code organization of fvwm, as yet) to try to 
help out. A list of two items follows:

1. Apparently, there is no support for PNG icons. If I want to do 
something like borrow an icon from somewhere, or if a piece of software 
comes with its own PNG icon in the package, then I have to convert the 
icon to XPM format in order to use it. For me, it is not a big deal to do 
the conversion, but perhaps it would be nice if PNG format were 
recognized, too?

2. For a laptop, there are such things as battery and temperature sensors. 
Fancy environments such as KDE have support for things like indicators for 
the battery. I wonder how hard it would be to provide this for fvwm? 
Actually, I conjecture that this would not require a deep dive into the 
code at all, but rather the hooking up of some already-existing program 
into a display "icon" something like the load indicator, which already has 
been done a long time ago. But I wonder if anyone has done this, or 
thought of it?

Theodore Kilgore