Re: [RP] Patch - defbargravity

[Jonathan Walther]

The way ratpoison does things now violates the Law of Least Surprise.
Applying the patch would fix that "bug".

And this, coming from the man who added a new function just so the bar
could have its own default border width... for shame.

Jonathan

On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 02:17:38AM -0800, Shawn wrote:
> > 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 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. I don't like the name change
> either since it has nothing to do with X11 window gravity.
>
> I am willing to hear an argument for it, but don't expect me to give
> in easily :)

--
I am working to subvert from within ...
umm ...  by writing shoddy code ... and
charging too much. -- Colin, Aug 21, 2001

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