evilvte 0.4.5 released

Some features I want to put in 0.4.5 are delayed. :-P

I will write them in future release.

Thanks for the new release.

In the file evilvte-0.4.5/src/sakura.c, is it possible to have the line 2786 which looks like

    gtk_window_set_icon_from_file(GTK_WINDOW(main_window), ICON_DIR"/evilvte.png", NULL);

replaced by the line

  gtk_window_set_icon_from_file(GTK_WINDOW(main_window), ICON_DIR"/"ICON_IMAGE, NULL);

?

That way, the good old config.h parameter "#define ICON_IMAGE" that existed in evilvte-0.4.4.2 will be resurrected!

(And yes, this change also means that ICON_IMAGE must be defined to the defaul value "evilvte.png" at some sensible place in the source).

I'm an addict to having custom icons, so the icon reflects the color scheme of the terminal window (and for each possible host I work with, I use a unique color scheme for background, foreground and cursor color).

If for nothing else, please try to keep this ability to customize (in the config.h file) the window icon to ensure that evilvte continues to be outstanding in the respect of being the ONLY terminal application out there (that I am aware of) which supports BOTH setting separate foreground/background/cursor colors AND specifying a custom window icon!

Best regards

IllvilJa

I just added a new option PROGRAM_ICON (not released yet).

My design was to read $HOME/somewhere/foo.bar, like the BACKGROUND_IMAGE option.

Thus, different users may have different icons without rebuild.

And...I believe I never put ICON_IMAGE options in all public evilvte tarballs.

I guess you are using a customized 0.4.4.2? :-)

Well, I used a unmodified 0.4.4.2, actually, and that one contained that ICON_IMAGE option.  Hence my dependance ;-).

Other than modifying (wildly) the config.h file in the 0.4.4.2 release, I did not touch any other files.

If you implement another scheme for selecting/customizing the program icon for evilvte, I suppose that is fine, as long as it does not too strongly expect one user to only use one single program ICON (I use about 20 and counting different icons for evilvte on my work machine).

On another subject: I saw that title changing were implemented, or at least, it appears to be for tab titles according to the source. Personally, being an old fart damaged from using too much xterm in my days, I configure evilvte to not use the tabs at all.  As a end result, my evilvte does never display any changed titles and in my case, the desirable feature would be that the title changes were propagated to the window title directly.

What is the best way to configure this?  A very straightforward solution is to add yet another option: "TITLE_LABEL_DYNAMIC"

By setting that, any changes title changes are propagated to the window title.  If set simultaneously as "TAB_LABEL_DYNAMIC" , well, then both the tab title and the window title will be updated with the new title.

Implementing this option would require quite few lines: there is already a piece of code for setting the window title (used to support the functionality of a static window title), a single oneliner if I understood the code correctly.  Then in the function do_title_changed, some clever #ifdefs can be used to add that oneliner at a good place (and make the two options TAB_LABEL_DYNAMIC and TITLE_LABLE_DYNAMIC coexist peacifully).

Of course, I might have overlooked some pieces of code elsewhere in sakura.c which is related with title management and with it's associated preprocessor variables. But I think I will give this a stab, and see if I can make it work for me.  The main risk as I see it is that I manage to create something that works for me, but which breaks stuff for those who relies on tabs (but I'll do my best to avoid that).

Best regards

/IllvilJa

It worked!

BTW, I were too fast when I named the suggested option in the above text, I decided to call it "WINDOW_TITLE_DYNAMIC" to make it consistent with "TAB_LABEL_DYNAMIC".

Anyway, I got a tiny patch (with the support of "ICON_IMAGE" as a bonus ;) ) for this but how do you want it delivered?  Should I cut and past in this forum, upload it to somewhere, mail it or...?

It is really a small patch, basically changing ca 3 lines and adding another ca 4 lines.

(weee.. now I'm going to recompile all my evilvte instances to include this title bar goodiness! Dynamic window titles are INVALUABLE if you run Gnu screen in the terminal windows...)

 /IllvilJa