Re: afterstep-digest V2 #69

Chris Burgess (chris@ibex.co.nz)
Thu, 7 May 1998 11:40:30 +1200 (NZST) 


 
> Can the wharf button sizes be changed?

not if you find the configurability of open source software lacking.
       
> Does AS support transparent images for wharf?
> Can "windows" be created in AS on certain parts of it that are "active"  
>  and can start applications when I click in that area?

not in the way you're thinking, and no. but other programs provide this -
i use kfm with afterstep to get desktop icons, which is quite slick IMO.
some minor wierdities (clicking desktop on icon gives K menu, otherwise
AS)
 
> Can the pager be made so that they are "windows", not a tic tac toe
style?

what you want is probably desktops, not pages. the tic-tac-toe layout is a
desktop, with so many pages. i think in e this is more a desktop thing,
tho i've only looked at it for about fifteen minutes. the docs are (IMO)
pretty confusing on this issue, and i think the .steprc should prolly
discern between them better. 

<pink batts>
but i'm not really sure, because i don't use desktops. and i still use a
.steprc because i'm running 1.0.
</pink batts>

> Can a different pointer for X be used? (such as if I created my own
> pointer in GIMP?)

i saw a prog this monrrning called xanicur on the RPM archives at
rufus.w3.org. christ only knows what it does but i can guess, so maybe
there's hope for your cursor changes. no idea how much processor it'll
want for a single-frame animation, but it's gotta be less than e.

speaking of which: if rastaman (raster?) wrote e and is now working for
RH, making their new sexy (gnome??) desktop, why have they suggested
they'll make AS the default wm for 5.1? if they want to make linux easy
for people to cope with, they're gonna have to commit to a single unified
GUI for a default, and moving from fvwm-?? to AS to e2 ain't the way.

(personally, i'm pushing every newbie i can at KDE, which i think is
great, but i can't stand it myself for a working interface!)

chris burgess
http://ibex.co.nz


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