On Sun, Jul 23, 2006 at 11:32:05PM +0200, Peter Daum wrote:
> 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?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. Well, if 3.0 is ever released, it won't have much in common with the current interfaces. It would be useless to mark 50% or more of the syntax as becoming obsolete. > 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. Colour sets actually make the setup smaller and easier to maintain, unless you want a different look for every part of the desktop. Once there are predefined colour sets that define the default colours of common desktop elements, they will be even easier to use than the current syntax. > 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 ... Ciao Dominik ^_^ ^_^ -- Dominik Vogt, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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