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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Fwd: kwin bugs [and patches !]
From:       Richard Moore <rich () ipso-facto ! freeserve ! co ! uk>
Date:       1999-12-28 1:15:39
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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

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     Richard Moore		rich@ipso-facto.freeserve.co.uk
http://www.robocast.com/	richard@robocast.com
http://developer.kde.org/	rich@kde.org

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