Configuration issues/ideas

[Olivier Fourdan]

Hi Jasper,

Just some thoughts for your WE ;)

On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 21:34, Jasper Huijsmans wrote:
> * Mouse and keyboard dialogs could perhaps do with a 'defaults' button
> (as requested on this list). You can screw up these settings rather
> easily and getting back to a working system may be difficult.

"Default" buttons are usually to be avoided in GUI design...

> * Keyboard theme for gtk should be removed IMO. I think it's better to
> make anyone who wants this put it in their gtkrc. For xfwm4 I was
> wondering if we should remove all key bindings and make an xfce4-keys
> utility. Someone has to put in some work for that though ...

GTK key themes are really a gtk thing, it should be kept as long as GTK
supports this.

Removing all keybindings from the window manager would be a mistake. Key
bindings are just like shortcuts in apps (like Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V, Ctrl-X,
etc) It could be removed if replaced by a key manager that would use
EWMH hints to manage the window ops though.

What is to be removed is the key shortcuts for launching apps (ie
Alt+F2=xfrun  Alt+Ctrl+Suppr=xflock, etc) 

> * For xfdesktop, if I want to support different backgrounds for multiple
> screens, I will not be able to use the mcs manager anymore. Same goes
> for multiple panels; only icontheme and perhaps layer would remain
> global. This is probably unavoidable, though.

Wrong, I made a separate reply for this one. What is to be made is save 
conf to different files per display+screen (ie xfce4rc.0.0, xfce4rc.1.1 etc)

Cheers,
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Olivier Fourdan - fourdan at xfce.org
   
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