On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 02:21:08PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote:
> --- "Steve C. Lamb" <grey@dmiyu.org> wrote:
> > See, Thomas pointed to a web page where a WM's text file configuration
> > was defended because it was too complex to represent graphically. Yet
> > in the above we have 5 items.
> It's not that it's too complex -- it's just that *trying* to do so -- to be
> a comprehensive means would be a hinderance in the long-run.
Which is why I mentioned the 80% rule. Why leave this out when it is a
fairly common operation that shouldd be made as simple as possible to do as it
ties directly to the main thrust of the program; starting, managing and
closing windows which contain applications!
> > Why does it NEED to be in text?
> If you haven't dug into fvwm (as an example), I can appreciate how you might
> think this so -- but there are a lot of aspects of fvwm that you just
> couldn't represent graphically. fvwm has hundreds of style options, and
> many focus policy hints.
Pardon me if I don't believe you when you say that the miriad of
*graphical style options* can't be represented *graphically*. If they
couldn't then they wouldn't exist, would they?
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