Hi Gautam, On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 12:34:43PM -0700, Gautam Iyer wrote: > > Beautified default configuration, mrxvt looks now a bit more appealing > > in default configuration. The menu is visible as default > > Hi Mark, > > As TERRIBLE as I think the mrxvt defaults are, I'm not sure the colors / > etc. should be changed system wide. (I think the defaults are from rxvt > from way back, which is why they look so terrible on new systems). > > The reason we have a /usr/share/mrxvtrc is because early versions of > mrxvt had the 'hotkeys' hard wired into the code of mrxvt. When this was > replaced with macros, no default keyboard shortcuts were hardwired into > mrxvt (as a design decision, and to avoid code replication). Thus all > the former keyboard shortcuts were put into the share/mrxvtrc file. > > Maybe default changes (e.g. color preferences / etc.) belong in an > optional file instead, like mrxvtrc.sample.
Backward compatibility is important, but in my opinion a simple change of the look of mrxvt will not break so much user-setups. I think the file /usr/share/mrxvtrc is more relevant for new users than for long-time users because almost 100% of longtime users have created their own configuration in the homedir. I also think that we will get more active users, if mrxvt looks more appealing for first-time users. .o(Maybe we should enable transparency per default ...... :-)) My first motivation for changeing this file was the new tab-monitoring feature, which uses the values of 'itabBackground' and 'tabBackground' to provide a notification about activity/inactivity ;-) Best regards Marc Schoechlin -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ Materm-devel mailing list Materm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/materm-devel mrxvt home page: http://materm.sourceforge.net
