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humpty

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Posted: Aug. 04 2007,21:44

oh i see. (i had context turned off!).

also is there any chance of a default bigger mouse cursor with the final 4.0 ?

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Posted: Aug. 04 2007,23:02

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oh i see. (i had context turned off!).

also is there any chance of a default bigger mouse cursor with the final 4.0 ?

Try some out with...
xsetroot -cursor_name left_ptr

post what you like and lets see.

As for icons, it is amazing how much space can be used up with many png/gif/jpg icons. Also, many of our smaller brothers could not even display these icons. I am trying to save as much space as possible and still look ok. Also, to allow the very oldest of hardware to display them. I am using xpm for that reason. Also, because I want to ability to directly manipulate them via lua.

You can use imagemagick's convert to this format.

xtdesk can display xpm as well. A batch script could be run to convert all the extension's icons to this format. However, we were using 48x48 and often when resizing down to 32x32 you lose quality. It is trying to support the exising dsl v3x and prior and the new dsl v4. It would be easier to drop support for the older versions of DSL and move on. But I don't think that is likely at this point.

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Posted: Aug. 05 2007,00:25

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Where's the theme changer in jwm ? fluxbox menus seem to to better here.

There's not a changer. Your menu is XML, so are the themes. Scroll down to "Themes."
http://24.254.249.181:8080/jwmguide.php

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humpty

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Posted: Aug. 05 2007,22:46

Am just voicing the newbie's viewpoint here, this milestone
is a good opportunity to gain more followers;

roberts> xsetroot -cursor_name left_ptr
Tried those before, they are all small. I'm currently using
Mikshaw's dsl-artwiz.tar.gz - cursor.pcf, but this seems like
a long way of going about it.

lucky13> There's not a changer. Your menu is XML,..
Again, some predefined themes and a simple way to change them
for the newbie.

Icons: A mass convert on the depositry is not a bad idea, at least
something would be shown instead of the 'box' icon, although the
older dsl versions would lose quality. An 'inline' convert in the
extension loader would be better, but the overhead in the extra code
might be too much. A compromise might be a mass convert to .xbm (48x48) (edit:I mean .xpm)
and inline coding to just resize.

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Posted: Aug. 05 2007,23:06

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Again, some predefined themes and a simple way to change them for the newbie.

Did Robert use jwm 2.0+? See the red letters. Can't miss'em. :-)
http://24.254.249.181:8080/cgi-bin/themes.pl

That leave the fun, easy way: Open .jwmrc, choose your font, choose your colors, choose your sizes for tray and borders. RTM and decide what other options you want (tray on top or side, autohide, etc.).

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