xffm settings and mcs

Olivier Fourdan fourdan at xfce.org
Fri May 9 21:06:34 CEST 2003


Hi Jasper,

It's because of that that I used treeview with a scrollwin.

If you split the into two tabs, the first one will just have a couple of
drop down menus that won't look very good...

Cheers,
Olivier.


On Fri, 2003-05-09 at 18:11, Jasper Huijsmans wrote:
> Just a quick note, can we please add this to a separate 'Advanced' tab.
> The dialog is strangle long and narrow at the moment, plus I think the
> variables are rather confusing.
> 
> 	Jasper
> 
> On 09 May 2003 00:09:32 +0200
> Olivier Fourdan <fourdan at xfce.org> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Edscott,
> > 
> > I've changed the mcs-plugin for xffm to use a nice editable treeview
> > instead of the ugly text entries for env .variable (see screenshot)
> > 
> > The env. variable stuff don't work anyway. xffm complains "Invalid
> > Argument:TERM=<whatever I type>"
> > 
> > Btw, I think this particular mcs-plugin is all broken! Your plugin
> > doesn't seem to save or load its values, nowhere... mcs API provides
> > transparent hooks to save and load channel setting to XML files, but
> > you need to call the routines for this to work.
> > 
> > I still think the use of env variable is not needed at all, since it's
> > the job of mcs: mcs is independent of the host, values are shared
> > between all apps that run on the display, whatever host there are
> > running on.
> > 
> > I cannot figure what the use of environment variable provides that mcs
> > doesn't.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > -- 
> > Olivier Fourdan <fourdan at xfce.org>
> > http://www.xfce.org
> > 
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