Thomas Adam wrote:
> You should be using Colorsets regardless in 2.5.X -- deprecation of
> {Fore,Back}Color is definitely on the cards, and has been for a while.
Is this your personal opinion or general consensus?
In the past, features always had been marked in the documentation
as obsolete for quite a while (usually also with sensible
recommendations what to use instead) before finally stripping
them - so far the man page says nothing about deprecating direct
color specifications and it would be pretty bad style to just let
it fall apart.
In this case it would be particularly regrettable, because the
colorset mechanism for most purposes is not an equivalent
alternative. It is mostly tailored to give new users quick eye
candy - certainly not a bad thing (even though I strongly doubt
whether these are the kind of people likely to use fvwm). It's
strength is to quickly adopt the whole desktop to some new
"Look&Feel"(tm). For people who have made excessive use of the
possibility to specify different styles for different
applications/window classes or whatever (not necessarily to
fulfill aesthetic needs but to facilitate orientation), colorsets
are just an additional indirection that make a complex setup of
this flavor more bloated and difficult to maintain.
I personally have a pretty extensive fvwm configuration heavily
based on m4 (which among other things has provided a simple
mechanism for consistent colors from fvwm's very beginnings) that
gradually evolved over more than a decade - a continuity that I
have always been grateful for ...
Regards,
Peter Daum
