On 20:07 Tue 17 Apr , Jesús Guerrero wrote: > Yes hehe, I remember that thread, I was moreless a newcomer to those > forums when it started, and I was following the thread. After it > silently died for no apparent reason
Well, we seemed to hit a bit of an impasse as to how to proceed. Jonathan Kotta reported that our tweaked build broke his existing config - clearly a bad idea. I had one idea about how to fix things, which Thomas assured me was Not Supported. On the other hand, Thomas couldn't replicate the problem on his machine, so things somewhat stalled. We did revisit the subject a little while back and it seemed as though part of the problem lay in some distros using some unsupport files to customise their FVWM distribution. These days however, free time is somethng that happens to other people and we never did quite get to the bottom of the problem (Thomas, I hope that's a fair summary - I'm sure you'll correct me if not ;) > But for what I can remember, it is the same idea of what an > "improved" (to name it in some way) FVWM default configuration should > look. Anyway, I will review it, now that the thing comes into scene > again. Well, principle aim was to start up with something that looked like it was working. On Gentoo at least, the default FVWM config looks exactly the same as a broken window manager. If you click on the desktop, you get a menu, but it's all to easy to assume it isn't working and to go install fluxbox, or something. So: background colour and something to "click to get a menu" After that, we thought we might as well show off some of the things FVWM could do. There is a serious risk here (as stated elsewhere in this thread) that newcomers will mistake the default config for the sum total of FVWM, so we tried for somethign people would want to modify, but also which demonstrated the possibilities. We also wanted something that would work with a wide range of setups, not be too heavy on resources, was bright and cheerful, visually distinctive, and had good contrast for the colour blind. Given the constraints, I think we did a fabulous job. I'd hesitate to describe it as the optimum solution, but I do think it was a lot better than the default at the time. -- Don't let THEM immanentize the Eschaton!
