On Mon, 20 Mar 2017 at 6:00:41 -0400, Doug Torrance wrote: > >>But there are other sources of documentation, e.g.: > >>http://windowmaker.org/chap4.php > > > >We cannot expect a random administrator in some random distro > >to know the location of this documentation. > > > >>We still need this file to exist, otherwise an error dialog appears. > >>I propose that we instead ship a very minimal W/D/WindowMaker and keep the > >>default config values in one location: src/defaults.c. > > > >Having a file with an empty content is an indication that this > >might be a bad idea. > > Fair enough. I definitely figured there was a decent chance this > patch wouldn't be accepted. :) > > Here's a couple other ideas I had to fix the divergence issue going forward: > > - A new command line option to wmaker (--default-options?) that > prints the defaults in src/defaults.c to stdout and quits. This > could be used to generate W/D/Defaults during build.
This could work but it seems overkill. A simpler solution could be to sync both places and write a comment in src/defaults.c about the need to keep the choices in sync. -- To unsubscribe, send mail to wmaker-dev-unsubscr...@lists.windowmaker.org.
