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I'm sitting here with my jaw on the floor. |
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I've been fighting with FVWM off and on for a while, and before I tried |
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to go toe-to-toe with the giant, I had installed FVWM-Crystal (I'm a |
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chicken). Which I thought was very pretty, but there was no config I |
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could find to edit and no help (in English), and so I tried going |
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toe-to-toe with the giant itself, which has never quite succeeded... ok, |
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it's never succeeded at all, despite years of managing Litestep .rc |
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files, which seem simple by comparison to fvwm2rc. And FVWM-Crystal, |
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while it worked, didn't really work that well, and then the site (which |
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had very little English help in the first place) tried to move to |
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Berlios but instead went totally down.... |
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So today, I was doing the previously mentioned 'minor maintenance' and |
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emerge -uaDtv world wanted to reinstall python 2.3.5, which I didn't |
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want it to do, because I find that slotting Python only causes me grief, |
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and I want to just have 2.4.1 and migrate everything. So the reason was |
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that I needed to upgrade pyxml which I had not unmasked to unstable, and |
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in the course of checking what depended on pyxml that might also need to |
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be upgraded, I found that most of the stuff I could unmerge (gdesklets |
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and its desklets, which are also more trouble than they seem to be |
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worth, ultimately), but it was also a dependency of fvwm-crystal-- which |
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I didn't want to unmerge, and *had an unstable upgrade to 3.0-rc2*. |
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I upgraded and just now booted into it, which is why I'm sitting with my |
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jaw on the floor. |
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It works...! |
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It's gorgeous...! |
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The new site is up, and it's in English...! (no docs yet, though, as far |
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as I saw.) |
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I changed my layout to dock (which looks a lot like XFCE, but all |
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transparent), and when I click on one of the icons-- let's say the OO.o |
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icon, a menu that actually has all my word processing programs appears! |
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The Firefox icon menu shows all my 'interact with the web' apps, and the |
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thunderbird icon menu has all my 'communicate with others' programs. |
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OK, maybe not quite all of them, but almost. More than enough to get |
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along with and give me some choice (I have multiple alternatives |
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applications for some types of usage situations), and enough to see that |
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1) both KDE and GNOME menu listings are being read, and 2) applications |
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are being recognized and sorted reasonably appropriately. I probably |
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will want to customize it a bit further, but on the whole, I would say |
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it JustWorks-- it's certainly useable for me, as is, out of the box. |
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Which is unbelievable, for any variant of FVWM, imo. |
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This is a gigantic leap from the previous versions I've used, and I |
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think I've just switched WMs. Obviously there's been a huge shakeup |
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somewhere, but the site doesn't say anything about it, that I saw. |
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Does anybody happen to follow development of this and know what happened? |
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I'm just stunned (in a good way). |
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Holly |
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