Hello Renato,

Am 2006-04-22 12:46:11, schrieb seventh guardian:

> I did ask for some kind of support for this a while ago. Since then I
> got used to not having it, but even so ended up using rox as a desktop
> app.

Unfortunatly I was kicked out of business in Strasbourg/France
and now I am flying around the world and do my "old" military
job and I have very less time for bigger codeing.

Fortunatly my own Servers are up and runing...

> I don't think the "desktop framework" should be "inside" fvwm, but

It depends...

> rather upgrade the module mechanism so that it would become easy to
> have that kind of dnd support from one module (somekind of hook
> mechanism).

Right.

> As for desktop icons per se, I don't think that's a task for fvwm, but
> rather for another app like rox or even some module.

I was thinking on a module...

> Maybe in the future the menus could be provided by special modules, so
> that we can either have the minimalistic (manual) aproach, or the
> fully automated one. I would really like to see this happen..

I hope...

> If the menus supported drag and drop, then any "dnd-aware" app could
> work with them, without needing fvwm to support a desktop.

Is there a specification for those DnD stuff under Linux??
I was searching some years ago, but found nothing.

> As I said, having the desktop icons support in fvwm really means a
> true "fvwm desktop app", which would either be fully functional (and
> heavy), or minimalistic (and kind of useless).

I think, the Desktop icons should something like a module.
DnD support like the menus too.

> Cheers!
>   Renato Caldas

Greetings
    Michelle Konzack


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