Re: [RP] Patch - defbargravity

[Doug Kearns]

On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 02:17:38AM -0800, Shawn wrote:
> Doug Kearns <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > The behaviour of the recently altered 'defbarloc' command seemed
> > inconsistent to me given that it only took a subset of the gravity
> > values.
> > 
> > So in the spirit of 'least surprise' interface design, here is a tiny
> > patch to allow it to use all of the gravity values and to rename it
> > 'defbargravity'. 
> > 
> > :defbargravity center is actually kind of funky, really...
> 
> Now that IS excessive.

I thought you'd probably think so and am surprised you lasted this far.
I guess this falls into the category of "flashy wank", or maybe just
"wank" :-)

> I admit I've been pretty easy going on the
> feature creap. But I'm afraid extending the defbarloc just because X
> decided to define NORTH, SOUTH, etc. is ridiculous. That IS bloat
> because it doesn't add anything useful.

Are you seriously trying to argue that the centring of messages is
_useless_? You centered the frame indicator and license text, for
example. Wouldn't the upper right corner have been nicer?

I suspect you are being just a little contrary :-)

> I don't like the name change
> either since it has nothing to do with X11 window gravity.
 
Could you explain further. How does it differ from the other 'gravity'
commands in _practice_ from a user perspective.

> I am willing to hear an argument for it, but don't expect me to give
> in easily :)

Well, as stated above it just seems unnecessarily inconsistent, and
inconsistency, as you know, is bad, bad, err... bad.

IMNSHO it is "ridiculous" to arbitrarily restrict the location
possibilities, because you just don't like some of them. I've been using
the bar centred for almost a week now and there it will stay.

Regards,
Doug