Outstanding!! [LWN.net]

Outstanding!!

Posted Apr 17, 2011 21:14 UTC (Sun) by nicooo (guest, #69134)
In reply to: Outstanding!! by pflugstad
Parent article: FVWM 2.6.0 released

Config files are the only thing i hate about fvwm. I can't imagine how anyone could come up with something worse.

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Outstanding!!

Posted Apr 17, 2011 22:02 UTC (Sun) by pflugstad (subscriber, #224) [Link] (1 responses)

Heh - yeah, Enlightenment did - they went with a binary config file:

http://trac.enlightenment.org/e/wiki/EFLChapterFive#s3

So, no searching, no hand editing, nothing. Go ahead, please tell me how to change the double click timeout under Enlightenment. On low spec machines, we have users frequently UNABLE to do a double click, so we wanted to make it longer. I literally still have not found out how to config that under Enlightenment.

(Yes I know (now) that this can be a Xwindows setting, but not all apps follow that, and E doesn't seem to give you any way to set it; unlike every other window manager/GUI toolkit out there.)

As much as fvwm config can suck at times, at the end of the day you can grep it figure out what it's doing.

Outstanding!!

Posted Apr 19, 2011 8:55 UTC (Tue) by Lennie (subscriber, #49641) [Link]

That is just terrible, that makes me not want to use E17.

Really ?

That is pretty sad.

Why not have one text format and maybe a daemon which does the read/write to monitor changes/request changes/get values or something.

I know E17 is very lightweight for mobile, but I don't know if I want to make such a compromise.

That just feels 'icky' ;-)