Subject: Re: Notification: incoming/866

From: Dominik Vogt <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 13:58:03 +0200

On Sun, Mar 31, 2002 at 05:49:24PM -0600, fvwm-bug wrote:
> FVWM Bug Tracking notification
> 
> new message incoming/866
> 
> Full_Name: jos
> Version: 2.4.2
> CVS_Date: 
> OS: suse 7.3
> X_Server: 
> Submission from: (NULL) (194.109.171.157)
> 
> 
> It would be nice if one could let the pager module pop up
> >from the root window, as if it were a menu. Clicking the 
> root window once (without releasing) would pop up the pager.
>  While the button
> is pressed one would select the window to go to, and then
> one would actually go there by releasing the button again.
> This would enable one to navigate really fast.
> 
> Now, FvwmPager -transient only starts after the mouse 
> button was released.

I tried to hack that into the code, but it's totally unusable
with the pager:

 Button 1:

   To select a new viewport you have to press the button anyway.

 Button 2:

   To drag a window you have to release the button first to select
   a window or you have to push and multiple buttons.  Very
   undesirable.  Simply pushing the button on a window only raises
   it.  That's not a very useful thing to do on a different page
   or desk, and on the current viewports there are better methods
   to do that.

 Button 3:

   This is the only binding that could profit, but since the
   desktop follows the motion of the pointer, the desktop just
   jumps around to funny places.

In my eyes, it's useless for the pager.  FvwmIconMan in transient
mode could benefit, though.  But then you might be better off
using the built in WindowList.

Bye

Dominik ^_^  ^_^

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Dominik Vogt, [email-masked]
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