Ted Clark <bison@visi.com> writes: > > And I don't have a problem with adding keybindings for both lower > > window and vert/horz maximize. Those bugs are open on gnome.org. > > I saw that, but I haven't yet jumped into the fray. I'm not an active > Gnome developer, so I thought I would hang out and watch for a > while. It turns out I added the "lower" keybinding in August, and I made middle-click lower window yesterday. > Alternatively, if sawfish _doesn't_ shape up I think it would be good > to reinstate FVWM in the distro. A window manager with a scary > default configuration that works is better than a nice looking one > that doesn't. I can't really disagree with that, though I don't promise I can convince others. > As an alternative to adding individual preferences to metacity, you > might consider adding them as a group. That way you just have two > configurations (WINDOZE and OLD_UNIX_DOG) to debug instead of a > combinatorial explosion of configurations. > > This of course gets back to the problem that no-one has the same five > favorite features, but you might find consensus for a core group of > features. If this alternate configuration silences half of us > whiners, then I think you come out ahead. Yeah. Note, in my view metacity already has quite a few compromises for the "old UNIX dogs" (you don't have to be that old - I used all of fvwm, olvwm, icewm, and windowmaker for significant periods of time). People always want one more... ;-) Havoc
