FVWM: FVWM Logo Competition

[d***@mail.com]

Hi all,
I happened to be looking at the previous FVWM logo compeition [1] and
wondered if it's time to hold another one? The previous competition
was held in the early 2000s. Is it time for an update?
If so, send some ideas through, it'd be great to see them!
-- Thomas Adam
[1] http://fvwm.org/fvwm-logos/competition/

Well, I like the current fvwm logo. It has that simple yet
interesting/cool look.
What makes the current one unacceptable?
What, if anything, do you have in mind?

Sincerely,
David

[Martin Cermak]

Hi Thomas,

Hi all,
I happened to be looking at the previous FVWM logo compeition [1] and wondered
if it's time to hold another one? The previous competition was held in the
early 2000s. Is it time for an update?
If so, send some ideas through, it'd be great to see them!
-- Thomas Adam
[1] http://fvwm.org/fvwm-logos/competition/

I like the current logo. But as long as fvwm is here as such,
I'm fine with pretty much any logo for it ;)

m.

[Bob Marcan]

On Thu, 1 Sep 2016 09:44:37 -0400

I like the current logo. But as long as fvwm is here as such, I'm
fine with pretty much any logo for it ;)

Ditto; The logo can be a green polka dotted rabbit if you fancy. Just as
long as fvwm doesn't disappear...
GI

+1000

[Robert Crochelt]

Totally agree. My favorite wm of all time.
Bob Crochelt

Sent from my iPhone

Post by Bob Marcan
On Thu, 1 Sep 2016 09:44:37 -0400

I like the current logo. But as long as fvwm is here as such, I'm
fine with pretty much any logo for it ;)

Ditto; The logo can be a green polka dotted rabbit if you fancy. Just as
long as fvwm doesn't disappear...
GI

+1000

[Christoph Fritz]

Hey,

what about the good old fvwm2_big.xpm? I think it's the most elegant
and clean logo FVWM ever had (with or without the ^2 at the end).

While searching for a link to this xpm, I discovered that debians
control file of package fvwm-icons mentions an upstream source which is
nowadays 404 [0]. What happend to fvwm-icons?

Nevertheless and thanks to Thomas and our new git repo, you can easily
find it there [1].

[0]: http://fvwm.org/download/icons.php
[1]: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fvwmorg/fvwm/5aa0da87f3891c696b06bd66c242866c35b0a5e3/modules/FvwmBanner/fvwm-logo-old.xpm

Christoph

[Michael Großer]

Me too.

As long as nobody takes the functionality away from FVWM,
the logo doesn't matter.

- Michael -

Post by Robert Crochelt
Totally agree. My favorite wm of all time.
Bob Crochelt
Sent from my iPhone

Post by Bob Marcan
On Thu, 1 Sep 2016 09:44:37 -0400

I like the current logo. But as long as fvwm is here as such, I'm
fine with pretty much any logo for it ;)

Ditto; The logo can be a green polka dotted rabbit if you fancy. Just as
long as fvwm doesn't disappear...
GI

+1000

[Ron Tapia]

Hi all,

I couldn't agree more.

I use fvwm at home and at work. I can make it do exactly what I want
without fighting with it the way that I would have to fight with a
"desktop environment" like KDE or gnome.

Cheers,

Ron

--
If C++ is your only tool, all problems look like your thumb.

Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2016 09:48:03 -0600
Subject: Re: FVWM: FVWM Logo Competition
Totally agree. My favorite wm of all time.
Bob Crochelt
Sent from my iPhone

Post by Bob Marcan
On Thu, 1 Sep 2016 09:44:37 -0400

I like the current logo. But as long as fvwm is here as such, I'm
fine with pretty much any logo for it ;)

Ditto; The logo can be a green polka dotted rabbit if you fancy. Just as
long as fvwm doesn't disappear...
GI

+1000

[Tethys]

I happened to be looking at the previous FVWM logo compeition [1] and wondered
if it's time to hold another one? The previous competition was held in the
early 2000s. Is it time for an update?

Personally, I'd say no. The current logo works well and I see no need
to change it.

Tet

[Lucio Chiappetti]

FVWM has shrunk down to a - as you call it - crackpot project. Only few
people are using it, these are mainly old guys like me (I'm 45) who know

Well then, who am I (61) ? Methuselah ? :-)

I do like and use s/w like FVWM, the Alpine Mail User Agent, the THE
Hessling editor (VM/SP XEDIT lookalike) and the Pale Moon browser. They
have more or less active user forums, and more or less active developers.

I guess a low activity may also depend by the fact the "emulation" has
been accomplished and the s/w is stable needing only "maintenance". This
might well be the case of other s/w like e.g. Latex2Html, who have
"achieved their goals".

Long live FVWM and all the rest !

[John Wiggins]

Post by Lucio Chiappetti

FVWM has shrunk down to a - as you call it - crackpot project. Only few people are using it, these are mainly old guys like me (I'm 45) who know

Well then, who am I (61) ? Methuselah ? :-)

Nope, guess would be me, as I turn 68 next month. :-)

I copied a TWM config from a colleague at work around 1987/1988. I switched to fvwm in the early 90s, perhaps from the same colleague at work.
FVWM was obviously better than TWM, and the virtual desktops was probably the major reason for the change.

I’ve stuck with fvwm all these years and platforms, bothering to compile FVWM for systems that did not have it, because this WM does all I want and my interest was to preserve my workflow.
I am a touch typist, and similar to using emacs, my fingers just automatically do what I want, and I would probably need to look at what my fingers/hands do automatically to tell you about key or mouse-button bindiings.

There are perhaps a few folks even older than me on this list, and perhaps some who still use FVWM for similar reasons.
Perhaps even a few (like me) who are using only slightly-modified .fvwm2rc files that hey copied from friends for colleagues ages ago.

BTW, my desktop bitmaps go back to TWM and have been dragged along all this time, too.

jw

[Donald R Laster Jr]

It is the best Window manager around. I use it with a simple 4x24 virtual window environment. No other window manager I have seen is capable of doing this. It is great for accessing multiple environments in a organized fashion. I use it on Slackware, where it is part of the distribution, and RHEL where I have to install it.

Don

Post by John Wiggins

Post by Lucio Chiappetti

FVWM has shrunk down to a - as you call it - crackpot project. Only few people are using it, these are mainly old guys like me (I'm 45) who know

Well then, who am I (61) ? Methuselah ? :-)

Nope, guess would be me, as I turn 68 next month. :-)
I copied a TWM config from a colleague at work around 1987/1988. I switched to fvwm in the early 90s, perhaps from the same colleague at work.
FVWM was obviously better than TWM, and the virtual desktops was probably the major reason for the change.
I’ve stuck with fvwm all these years and platforms, bothering to compile FVWM for systems that did not have it, because this WM does all I want and my interest was to preserve my workflow.
I am a touch typist, and similar to using emacs, my fingers just automatically do what I want, and I would probably need to look at what my fingers/hands do automatically to tell you about key or mouse-button bindiings.
There are perhaps a few folks even older than me on this list, and perhaps some who still use FVWM for similar reasons.
Perhaps even a few (like me) who are using only slightly-modified .fvwm2rc files that hey copied from friends for colleagues ages ago.
BTW, my desktop bitmaps go back to TWM and have been dragged along all this time, too.
jw

[Martin Cermak]

Post by Donald R Laster Jr
I use it on Slackware, where it is part of the distribution,
and RHEL where I have to install it.

It's in EPEL, so it's kind of part of the RHEL/CENTOS distro too:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=1783

Martin