07-30-2018
New issues that I mentioned in post #14 in this thread:
- The Thanks icon in the lower left corner of each post should not appear if I have already given (and not removed) thanks for that post and should not appear if I submitted the post. The first condition is not currently handled correctly; the second condition is handled correctly. Please remove the Thanks icon from posts where I have already given thanks for that post.
- When I use the Multi-Quote icon to select a post for Multi-Quoting an additional icon (an underscore) is created between the Multi-Quote icon and the Quick Reply icon. This new icon does not display any text if you hover over it and appears to be a no-op if you click on this icon. Please get rid of this icon. (Note that even if you de-select that post for Multi-Quoting, the underscore icon remains.)
- I'm not a big fan of the Power-off icon that tells you whether a user is on-line, off-line, or hiding when you hover over it. If you need text that appears when you hover over an icon to tell you what the icon means, it seems to be an indication that the icon doesn't not clearly indicate what information it is trying to convey. And, from a human-factors stand-point, you expect the text that appears when you hover over an icon to explain what will happen if you click on that icon. That is not what happens here. If you click on this icon, you get a menu similar to the menu you get when you select the User CP menu at the top of the page, but the menu applies to the user to submitted that post instead of to the currently logged-in user. Consider using the solid Chalkboard-teacher icon to indicate that the user is on-line, the solid Chalkboard icon to indicate that the user is off-line, and the light Chalkboard or Chalkboard-teach icon to indicate that the user is hiding. If there is a user-at-a-terminal icon, that would be even better than the Chalkboard-teach icon. Hovering over the icon should display something like "Display user name's CP Menu". You might also consider adding a down arrow next to whatever icon you use to indicate that there is a menu hidden under it.
- For user's who have provided a Home Page on their Public Profile "Contact Info" tab, since the latest changes have been made clicking on the "Home Page" text in that tab does not display that user's Home Page; instead it displays the home page for The UNIX & Linux Forums. The same glitch happens when you click on the menu item labeled "Visit user name's homepage!" in the menu that comes up when you select one of the one or two icons to the right of a user name in the top left corner of a post.
- As with the Power-off icon, the coffee-cup icon suffers from the same human-factors issues. And, I don't see the need to have two icons that invoke the same menu when clicked upon. If you don't go back to the badges that we used before, please choose an icon (although I don't have a good suggestion) that indicates the meaning) without using text when you hover over it to explain what the icon stands for. And, please consider making clicking on this icon be a no-op (and not adding underlining when hovering over this icon or badge). I liked the old badges better than a single icon because they indicated the position of that user within the UNIX & Linux Forums staff hierarchy; the coffee cup and eye icons don't do that (and don't, at least to me, indicate that the user is a UNIX & Linux Forums staffer).
- The second line in the menu that comes up when you select one of the one or two icons to the right of a user name in the top left corner of a post is "View Public Profile". It should be "View user name's Public Profile".
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fvwm-menu-xlock
fvwm-menu-xlock(1) Fvwm Utilities fvwm-menu-xlock(1)
NAME
fvwm-menu-xlock - builds xlock menu definition for fvwm
SYNOPSIS
fvwm-menu-xlock [ --help|-h|-? ] [ --version|-V ] [ --name|-n name ] [ --title|-t title ] [ --item format ] [ --icon-title icon ] [
--icon-item icon ] [ --special-first|-s ] [ -- xlock params ]
DESCRIPTION
A simple perl script which parses xlock's output to build an fvwm menu definition of all xlock's modes.
OPTIONS
--help
show the help and exit
--version
show the version and exit
--name name
define menu name in the following argument. Default is "XLockMenu"
--title title
define menu title in the following argument. Default is "XLock Modes".
--item format
define menu item format in the following argument, default is '%n (%d)'. TAB can be specified as ' ', but in .fvwm2rc you should
specify a double backslash or a real TAB.
Format specifiers:
%n - mode name
%d - mode description
%D - mode description without "Shows " prefix if any
These specifiers can receive an optional integer size, positive for right adjusted string or negative for left adjusted, example: %8x;
and optional *num or *-num, which means to leave only the first or last (if minus) num of chars, the num must be greater than 3, since
the striped part is replaced with "...", example: %*30x. Both can be combined: %-10*-20x, this instructs to get only the 20 last char-
acters, but if the length is less then 10 - to fill with up to 10 spaces on the right.
--icon-title icon
--icon-item icon
define menu icon for title and regular item accordingly. Default is no menu icons (equivalent to an empty icon argument).
--wm-icons
define icon names suitable for use with wm-icons package. Currently this is equivalent to: --icon-title '' --icon-item menu/lock.xpm.
--special-first
instructs to include special modes (usually black, bomb and random) first.
Option parameters can be specified either using '=' or in the next argument. Short options are ok if not ambiguous: -h, -t; but be careful
with short options, what is now unambiguous, can became ambiguous in the next versions.
Additional arguments (after --) will be passed to xlock.
Please see the xlock(1) man page for the xlock options.
USAGE
Add these lines to your fvwm configuration file:
PipeRead 'fvwm-menu-xlock --name MenuSSaver --title "Screensaver"
--icon-item mini-bball.xpm --special-first -- -nice 19 -nolock'
PipeRead 'fvwm-menu-xlock --name MenuSLock --title "Lock Screen"
--icon-item mini-rball.xpm --special-first -- -nice 19'
AddToMenu "Utilities" "Screensaver%mini-monitor.xpm%" Popup MenuSSaver
AddToMenu "Utilities" "Screenlock%mini-lock.xpm%" Popup MenuSLock
AUTHORS
Charles K. Hines <chuck_hines@vnet.ibm.com>, initial version.
Mikhael Goikhman <migo@homemail.com>, from 24 Feb 1999.
COPYING
The script is distributed by the same terms as fvwm itself. See GNU General Public License for details.
BUGS
Depends on the output of xlock. Will produce an empty menu if the structure of the output is changed.
Report bugs to fvwm-bug@fvwm.org.
perl v5.8.0 2003-03-15 fvwm-menu-xlock(1)