Re: [dev] PATCH for/back navigation with xprop

2011-06-07 Thread Gregor Best
On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 03:25:53PM +, Bjartur Thorlacius wrote: > [...] > I wasn't thinking of a single string match, but a string match for > about every application that maps a window. > [...] I don't know what kind of system you run, but on my machine, the frequency with which new windows g

Re: [dev] PATCH for/back navigation with xprop

2011-06-07 Thread Bjartur Thorlacius
On 6/6/11, Ethan Grammatikidis wrote: > most understandable! Seriously though, adding a single extra string match > isn't going to make much difference, nothing like whatever Gtk+ 2 does. I > wouldn't be surprised if the entire window-matching list of a large FVWM > config fit in 1 page of virtual

Re: [dev] PATCH for/back navigation with xprop

2011-06-06 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Tue, 7 Jun 2011 01:14:05 +0100 Connor Lane Smith wrote: > Trouble is, finding that something else is difficult. That I can agree with. ^^

Re: [dev] PATCH for/back navigation with xprop

2011-06-06 Thread Connor Lane Smith
Hey, On 6 June 2011 23:28, Ethan Grammatikidis wrote: > I'm a little bit.. scared of perfectly decent things being cut out in the > name of sucklessness to be honest. It's quite a difficult decision to make, I think. With some tools, like terminals, if they don't appear instantly it gets quite

Re: [dev] PATCH for/back navigation with xprop

2011-06-06 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Fri, 3 Jun 2011 23:16:49 + Bjartur Thorlacius wrote: > It's just that I believe spawning processes and creating windows > should be dirt cheap operations. Optimally, almost nothing should be > done in those functions. With Gtk+ 2.OMGWANTMOARBLOAT invading computers everywhere, your belief

Re: [dev] PATCH for/back navigation with xprop

2011-06-03 Thread Bjartur Thorlacius
On 6/3/11, Ethan Grammatikidis wrote: > This is normal proceedure for FVWM and worked very smoothly on 8MB 486s. > Even the numerous restarts needed to fine-tune FVWM configuration weren't a > terrible problem on that old 486. In contrast, today every app has all its > own buttons and memory usage

Re: [dev] PATCH for/back navigation with xprop

2011-06-03 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Fri, 3 Jun 2011 11:32:32 + Bjartur Thorlacius wrote: > On 6/3/11, Ethan Grammatikidis wrote: > > I don't get it... Back & forward are native to the browser, running programs > > is native to any WM of FVWM's era, and app-specific buttons are a native > > feature of FVWM, and fairly simple

Re: [dev] PATCH for/back navigation with xprop

2011-06-03 Thread Andrew Hills
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 7:32 AM, Bjartur Thorlacius wrote: > Having every maprequest checked to see if it's from surf, in which > case buttons are to be drawn, or if it's from {mplayer > or VLC} in which case a button is to be drawn, etc, > instead of the surf executable containing the relevant i

Re: [dev] PATCH for/back navigation with xprop

2011-06-03 Thread Bjartur Thorlacius
On 6/3/11, Ethan Grammatikidis wrote: > I don't get it... Back & forward are native to the browser, running programs > is native to any WM of FVWM's era, and app-specific buttons are a native > feature of FVWM, and fairly simple to use as FVWM features go. What am I > missing? > Having every mapre

Re: [dev] PATCH for/back navigation with xprop

2011-06-03 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Fri, 3 Jun 2011 09:26:57 + Bjartur Thorlacius wrote: > On 6/3/11, Jon Bradley wrote: > > Here is a patch I whipped up to add forward/back navigation with xprop. > > I use it to put buttons on the fvwm windows title bar > > of all surf instances. > > > At that point, wouldn't this be bett

Re: [dev] PATCH for/back navigation with xprop

2011-06-03 Thread Bjartur Thorlacius
On 6/3/11, Jon Bradley wrote: > Here is a patch I whipped up to add forward/back navigation with xprop. > I use it to put buttons on the fvwm windows title bar > of all surf instances. > At that point, wouldn't this be better implemented in (a wrapper around) surf?

[dev] PATCH for/back navigation with xprop

2011-06-02 Thread Jon Bradley
Here is a patch I whipped up to add forward/back navigation with xprop. I use it to put buttons on the fvwm windows title bar of all surf instances. https://github.com/rabbitear/my-patches Patched 0.4.1 and also the hg repo.. xprop -id -f _SURF_NAV 8s -set _SURF_NAV -1 goes back one page. -