Re: new command: raise

[Daniel J S. <dan...@ie...>]

Ethan Merritt wrote:

>On Tuesday 09 December 2003 10:08, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
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>>Petr Mikulik wrote:
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>>>It seems like most people agree that this patch is useful! Great!
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>I cannot comment on how useful it is under Windows, OS2, etc.
>If you need it, then fine.
>
>But I am not yet convinced it is useful in an X11 environment.
>There are better solutions available at a higher level (the window
>manager).
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>I do take your point that the window title is not always obvious. 
>We have a "set term ... title 'foo'" option, but the user may not always
>think to take advantage of it.  Maybe we should add  an auto-title 
>feature, similar to the auto-titling of plots themselves?
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>

>If the user has set an explicit title, then use that one.  If the user has
>not set a window title, then set it to match the title of the current plot
>displayed in the window. Does that sound reasonable?
>

Not a bad idea, but I don't know what syntax would be used.
Also, it might be nice to have a special character for
the plot number, e.g., "set termtitle 'G #'". With that example,
one could save space on the menu panel and actually see the
number. (I pointed out that the new Gnome GUI has a better
setup now, I think.) A # would mean put the plot window's
number in the title. A ## would mean put a # in the title.
Or vice versa.


Dan