9 Oct
2018
9 Oct
'18
10:36 p.m.
On 10/09/2018 11:42 AM, Len Ovens wrote:
One of the "new" gnome-isms that I hate is
thew take over of of the
window decorations. I tend to use many windows on any screen and I want
to know which window has focus. I look for a desktop theme where the
window with focus has a different colour than all others. Right now I am
using orange for focused and grey for unfocused. Any gnome app I use
insists on a grey title bar no matter what the theme is and merely makes
the text slightly greyer for unfocused. This forces one to use click to
focus instead of focus follows mouse (they still don't seem to have
focus follows mind for some reason) which makes things like copying from
one window in full view to a window partly covered hard to do.
Skinny window handles is another of complaint I have against many of the
newer desktop themes. The motif wm may be old and plain but it easy to
actually use.... though some of the old scroll bars took some getting
used to :) No I am not suggesting a return to motif or fvwm...
Just a side comment: It can be useful, especially during design
and debuggging of an app, to know exactly which widget has the
keyboard focus - no matter how small or insignificant the widget.
I had found that the only WM ever to do this thoroughly and completely
was... the ancient TAB window manager.
TAB WM put a black rectangle around *any* widget that had the focus,
no exceptions, no matter what the widget.
I found it annoying but understandable that later WMs (themes actually)
didn't do that and typically only highlight widgets such as line
editors and so on. Some themes did a terrible job of highlighting
buttons and it was a real pain to ensure that all the various themed
buttons worked the way we wanted in our app.