From kde-core-devel Tue Dec 28 01:15:39 1999 From: Richard Moore Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 01:15:39 +0000 To: kde-core-devel Subject: Re: Fwd: kwin bugs [and patches !] X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=94638865826397 Mosfet wrote: > > Toivo Pedaste wrote: > > > > >> - Changing window decorations on-the-fly doesn't work correctly, nor is the > > >> Be mode saved correctly. The mode saving problem is just that it saves it > > >> as "Be," yet checks for "be" while loading the config file. But when > > changing > > >> decorations on the fly, it only changes the current window, and not the > > >> entire desktop's behavior, which would be consistent with the way new > > windows > > >> open in the changed decoration style. > > > > >Mosfet left this for future implementation. There still is a lot of work > > >on the styling mechanism. Not very positive to apply your changes now. > > > > I was actually hoping that having different decorations on different > > windows was a feature, the reason I use fvwm2 instead of kwm is that > > fvwm2 allows me to color the window decorations differntly depending > > on which machine the window is logged into. > > > > Well, it's certainly possible to do something like that in the client > styles, but that is a separate issue. If a window is switched from > System to Next all windows will switch. Just having the current one > switch is very non-intuitive and it's like that just because I haven't > changed it yet. That doesn't mean styles can't do the feature you > suggest, but they should all be the same style with different colors > then IMHO. I personally, would prefer to have the same colours, but some sort of extra indication such as a change in the line style of the borders (eg. from solid to dashed). Is this possible with the current system? Rich. > > > -- > > Toivo Pedaste Email: toivo@ucs.uwa.edu.au > > University Computing Services, Phone: +61 8 9 380 2605 > > University of Western Australia Fax: +61 8 9 380 1109 > > "The time has come", the Walrus said, "to talk of many things"... > > -- > Daniel M. Duley - Unix developer & sys admin. > mosfet@mandrakesoft.com > mosfet@kde.org > mosfet@jorsm.com -- Richard Moore rich@ipso-facto.freeserve.co.uk http://www.robocast.com/ richard@robocast.com http://developer.kde.org/ rich@kde.org