Re: [RP] coloured current window broken

[shawn]

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>Date: 12 Feb 2001 11:13:32 -0800
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>shawn <address@hidden> writes:
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>> >I just committed my fixes for the capped window lengths.  You will
>> >notice that the current window is no longer coloured in the window
>> >bar.  Do not panic.  This is not necessarily permanent, I hestitated
>> >committing these changes because I did not want to remove this
>> >feature, but I think in the short term stability is more important
>> >than eye candy.
>> 
>> This is reasonable. Perhaps if we start fontifying strings we should
>> think of/borrow a more general scheme for it so that it may be used in
>> other places as well...
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>how we pass 2 ints to display_msg_in_bar() which represent the start
>and end offsets within the msg which we want to be drawn bold.
>
>Either that or we realize that colours really are useless in
>ratpoison and forget about it.

I agree. I don't want to waste my time coding color support.

>> >Anyway, ratpoison should be a whole lot more stable now.  Just see if
>> >you can get mozilla/xemacs/gnome-desktop to crash it.  Go on, you know
>> >you want to try to break it.
>> 
>> mwahahah! If only I had the HD space for just one of those
>> moster-apps! I'd show them who's boss!
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>we should write a suite of compliance/stress testing utils.  it would
>be nice to make changes to ratpoison and be able to run make test and
>have a bunch of client programs try to break the wm.

This we should do. The problem is, I don't really know how to write
proper X clients either :)