xffm settings and mcs

[Olivier Fourdan]

Edscott,

Why not a meeting on irc #xfce now ?

Cheers,
Olivier.

On Fri, 2003-05-09 at 19:13, edscott wilson garcia wrote:
> Hey Jasper,
> 
> El vie, 09-05-2003 a las 11:11, Jasper Huijsmans escribió:
> > 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.
> 
> I agree that the plugin is quite unclear (and strangling ;) Look at my
> reply to Olivier with proposed changes and tell me what you think.
> 
> saludos
> 
> Edscott
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > 
> > 	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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