FVWM: IconMan old patch

[Walter A. Iglesias]

Hello guys,

Searching for a way to preserve icon styles on IconMan while hovering it
with the mouse I've found this:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=529036

I've downloaded the diff file:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=5;filename=FvwmInconMan-IconAndSelect.diff;att=1;bug=529036

and patched and installed CVS fvwm. It works as expected.

Is there some reason to not adopt that change?

[Dominik Vogt]

Post by Walter A. Iglesias
Searching for a way to preserve icon styles on IconMan while hovering it
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=529036
Package: fvwm
Version: 1:2.5.26-1
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
Currently only the focused and plain buttons can have different styles
and colors when selected, an iconified window's button always looks like
a plain window's button. I prefer to use different style and colors for
iconified windows even if they are selected.
The attached patch adds the 'IconAndSelectColorset' and
'IconAndSelectButton' configuration options.
Note: I sent the patch to the fvwm-workers mailing list a month ago, but
nobody bothered to reply.

That's really a strange idea to dump patches into the Debian bug
tracking system because nobody took care of it on the list back
then.

Anyway, I've cleaned up the patch a bit, tested it and will apply
it in a minute.

Post by Walter A. Iglesias
Is there some reason to not adopt that change?

Lack of time.

Ciao

Dominik ^_^ ^_^

[Walter A. Iglesias]

I want to apologize publicly to myself for breaking my own rule.

Nowadays life rhythm make people to suffer what I call the anti-unix
syndrome, they try to do at the same time lot of things, more than they
can. They live stressed, they never have time. Let me use a hyperbole
to signify the consequence of that syndrome with software development: I
value reliability over all, so I tend to use barely maintained or even
abandoned software.

I am not a developer but I am prolific writing shell scripts for admin
tasks. I do know how easy is to add bugs while adding or modifying
code, especially in a hurry. Some times I get enthusiastic in taking
part of some free software project (I have some C bases) but the
environment I find in mailing lists discourages me. In part is my
personal problem, I am too "human" for how people connect nowadays.

The above considerations have made me have for rule to /never ask
developers for features/; asking for IconManSelectButton I break myself
my own rule and what it's worse I did it with a reliable software like
FVWM is.

My apologizes to you too. From now I will understand and double value
your silence and your inaction.


Walter