|Hence I plan to replace the client titlebars with a
|new color tuple instead:
|BORDERBGCOLOR (border of unfocused window)
|BORDERFGCOLOR (border of focused window)
|I know that there are several people who definately like the
|client title windows, but I tried to live without them several
|times, and noticed what I really miss is more a really obvious
|focus indicator (which can be achieved with a very shiny border
|color for focused windows).
I do think these are orthogonal issues: I to find myself looking
for a more obvious "window is focussed indicator", although in
my case it's because I'm a mouse user rather than a keyboard
shortcut user and it seems hardwired into my reflexes when I
turn back to the pc to find the mouse pointer and believe that's
the focussed window.
Anyway, the nice thing about title windows is that they provide
the SAME "visual interface" for various applications. For example,
my xterms are configured with only a $ as the visible prompt and
put the current directory into the window title; otherwise I'd have to
find the line with the cursor on to find out what the current directory is.
With vim, if the current file isn't put in the title I've got to find it
on the line at the bottom of the screen. With an document viewer
(eg, evince, etc) I've got to open the file menu. Etc.
The point I'm trying to make here is that there's a different thing
to do to find out the window title for each application, rather than
one global action for all the applications. That's why window
managers (& to an extent toolkits) exist right? So each application
doesn't define it's own way of performing common acitons like
moving windows, etc.
Anway, I wouldn't object to titles being configured out by default
but I don't see much actual practical gain (as opposed to LOC bragging)
in removing the code.
Anyway, that's my personal opinion.
cheers, dave tweed
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