On 4/23/06, Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. >
There is a spec for the X server: the Xdnd. Most X apps use it, and Fvwm has the Drag Well module which supports it: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Standards/XDND > > 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 > > > -- > Linux-User #280138 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org/ > ##################### Debian GNU/Linux Consultant ##################### > Michelle Konzack Apt. 917 ICQ #328449886 > 50, rue de Soultz MSM LinuxMichi > 0033/3/88452356 67100 Strasbourg/France IRC #Debian (irc.icq.com) > > >
