Re: FVWM: FvwmForm replaces FvwmPrompt (fvwm 2.0.41)

Anno domini 2020 Wed, 26 Aug 15:03:10 -0400
 Dan Espen scripsit:
> "Dr. Nikolaus Klepp" <[email protected]> writes:
> 
> > Anno domini 2020 Wed, 26 Aug 19:37:03 +0100
> >  Thomas Adam scripsit:
> >> Hi,
> >> 
> >> I'm curious about a piece of Fvwm history.  In the git log for fvwm2,
> >> the initial revision (which is when Jason committed the Fvwm code to
> >> CVS), notes the following for Fvwm 2.0.41:
> >> 
> >> 	Removed FvwmPrompt (use FvwmForm instead, since it's better
> >> 	anyways)
> >> 
> >> This was sometime in 1998, although I'm presuming 2.0.41 was before
> >> then.
> >> 
> >> Has anyone gpt any information about FvwmPrompt?  If it were a
> >> forerunner to FvwmForm I've not heard of it before.  I note from the
> >> old mailing list archives that it was a compiled module, but I can't
> >> find the code anywhere.
> >> 
> >> Dust off the cobwebs, folks!
> >> 
> >> I'm only asking as I have just committed a new binary to Fvwm3 called
> >> "FvwmPrompt", and hadn't realised it had existed already.  I thought
> >> I was being so clever with the choice of name as well... That'll
> >> teach me!  :)
> >> 
> >> -- Thomas
> >> 
> >> 
> >
> > 1998 ... could it be that the SuSE Linux of 1995 has it? I remember I
> > used fvwm95 around that time. I'll go to archive and check :)
> >
> > Nik
> 
> 
> Wow, fvwm history that is before my time?  (I think.)
> 
> All I can come up with is a config file with this:
> 
> AddToMenu Module-Popup	"Modules"	Title	
> +			"Button-Bar"	Module	FvwmButtons
> +			"Clean-Up"	Module	FvwmClean
> +			"Identify"	Module	FvwmIdent
> +			"SaveDesktop"	Module  FvwmSave
> +			"Debug"		Module	FvwmDebug
> +			"Pager"		Module  FvwmPager 0 1
> +			"WinList"	Module  FvwmWinList
> +			"Background"	Module  FvwmBacker
> +			"IconBox"	Module	FvwmIconBox
> +			"Banner"	Module	FvwmBanner
> +			"Talk"  	Module	FvwmTalk
> +			"Prompt"	Module	FvwmPrompt "hello" raise
> 
> Looks like it issued a prompt then executed an Fvwm command.
> 
> I don't remember FvwmClean either.
> 
> 

:)

Some more history: 

sunsite.unc.edu-CD6/X11/window-managers/
fvwm-2.0.43.tar.gz	537 KB 	12.07.96 	17:51:56 MESZ

So 2.0.41 is somewhere between August 1995 and June 1996 - kind of a blind spot in my archive. Still it might be in the shrinkwaped box of 1998 which I dare not to open ...

Nik




-- 
Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ...