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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

I added (from bl2-x.tgz) just the parts of BL2 icewm that I would use and 
I have therefore left out all the themes except win95, all the icons, 
'keys' (I can use other keyboard shortcuts to rxvt such as Ctrl-Esc, 
Enter), taskbar (which seems to be a bunch of little images of Debian, 
windows, os2, linux, X, etc. - do we need any of these for BL2?), toolbar 
(I don't use a mouse).  I did keep the help directory, preferences (which 
are the defaults and really not needed unless you want to know what the 
defaults are) and menu (from which I may delete the clock and calculator 
since I would use cli calculator instead and have a clock on the wall).

I added to the menu xv, xpdf, gs, and changed xterm to rxvt on the first 
line.  I think I would need to change it in the control panel menu as well 
in order to get that submenu (it is it not there at all) and to install 
clock and calculator and magnify to see the utilities submenu.  What does 
xkill do?

I omitted icewmbg (changes background color if you change workspace, which 
I don't) and icewmhint (don't know what it does other than act via an 
option on an arg.) and all the executables other than icewm.

I can read the help files with links, or edit the menu with pico, 
manually.

I can chroot to bl3 and run X with icewm (from a vt of Bl2) and hopefully 
use Abiword that way since the BL2 version won't work with Xvesa.

I have BL2 set up with Xvesa in about 1MB of files for X, not the regular 
10MB.

What I had left out previously was 'menu' (a small file which I will make 
smaller), which creates the menu (Ctrl-Esc), and the win95 theme - 4 
little icons for restore, maximize, minimize, close (ascii art-like), and 
one slightly larger .theme file which defines colors of taskbars etc.

I now have under /lib/X11/icewm only 128K of files, most of which are help 
files (76K) and preference (a 14K list of default settings), instead of 
804K originally in /lib/X11/icewm.

I compared this with the icewm in BL3 and it is not much smaller despite 
doing less.

A du on icewm in BL3 shows 155K of files (even including the tiny Debian 
and Windows and OS2 .xpm files).  A lot of work was done to pare this 
down.  The 265K metal2 theme was omitted.  The irrelevant icons (for gnome 
and kde and gimp and java) were removed and some others apparently renamed 
to be shorter, the toolbar was changed to be more useful (ppp-on and 
ppp-off), the .html help files were remade into a icewm.faq.gz.

Winoptions is stil there and has something to do with java, xload, and 
mozilla and xeyes.  Is it relevant to BL3?  What is fte?

keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org
SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org