Re: fvwm and post.hook problem

[Stefan Bellon <sbellon@sbellon.de>]

Cameron Hutchison wrote:
> Once upon a time Stefan Bellon said...

[snip]

> > I copied the old contents of /etx/X11/fvmw/* to my ~/.fvwm so that
> > I maintain the state that I had until two days ago. But somehow
> > this is still unsatisfying.

> I went into /etc/X11/fvwm and copied all the .dpkg-old files back to
> their original names, and copied DebianMenu to menudefs.hook.

Essentially I have done the same. I know created one single .fvwm2rc
file which contained all the stuff from /etc/X11/fvwm and my post.hook
file. Only one hook is present now, the menudefs.hook as the other have
been discarded.

[snip]

> Overall, I'd have to say I'm very disappointed with the approach
> taken with fvwm 2.5 with regard to keeping existing configurations
> working. There was quite an elaborate system for being able to hook
> personal configuration into the system wide configuration, which
> encouraged you to use these hooks rather than use your own complete
> fvwmrc. To now turn around and break all that with a small notice in
> the NEWS file, saying it has been done because of some new fancy
> configuration utility - to encourage people to use this new utility -
> is quite disrespectful to the users who have followed the system for
> configuring fvwm. A more orderly transition should have been planned.

I completely agree. I couldn't have worded it better!

-- 
Stefan Bellon