mikshaw
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Posted: Aug. 19 2006,14:30 |
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| Quote | | I still think it's odd that open source apps are being treated as closed-source and old versions being packed in instead of new ones being fitted |
I'm not sure what you mean about open source being treated as closed. Any apps released under GPL or GPL-compatible license are, and always will be, open source. The application can be distributed in binary form (as is done with practically every linux distro), but the source does not need to be included unless an additional license specifies that it does need to be included. The distributor simply needs to provide the source, or make known a location of the source, if it is requested.
Older versions of some applications are used in DSL because of the basic fact that all software suffers from bloat over the course of its development. At some point an application reaches a point where one must decide whether its useability balances or outweighs the increased size and memory use. In the case of Fluxbox, the stable version (0.1.14) provides a window manager that does what a window manager should do (manage windows), while giving the user a decent amount of easy-to-use features as an added bonus. It does this while remaining small, fast, and stable. The extensible nature of DSL allows to user to easily add a window manager of his choice, so there is really little reason to use the newer, bigger, slower version. Doing so would require removing something else from the distro (50mb limit).
| Quote | | in the icon bar or whatever it's called, it always shows an item called 'fluxter' |
The iconbar in 0.1.14 displays only the focused application (by default, anyway). If you have any other apps opened you won't see it. Fluxbox devel displays all windows in the iconbar. You can modify this using the apps file (needs to be created). The entry for fluxter would look something like this: | Code Sample | [app] (fluxter)
[IconHidden] {yes}
[end] |
| Quote | | Also, it maximizes over the slit and the iconbar even though I've set it not to. |
Not sure what you did to set this, but there are a few init settings that affect this.
session.screen0.toolbar.maxOver: false
session.screen0.fullMaximization: false
session.screen0.maxOverSlit: false
Some changes to init might require you to force the config reload
If you speak of true fullscreen windows (through openGL, SDL, etc, such as games), I'm not sure if fluxbox can prevent this.
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