Re: My thoughts on fallback mode

[Christopher Roy Bratusek <zanghar freenet de>]

On Tuesday 04 January 2011 12:16:47 Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote:
> Le mardi 04 janvier 2011 à 11:11 +0000, Sergey Udaltsov a écrit :
> > From X11 POV gnome-shell is just an app. Why should it depend so
> > heavily on features of some particular wm?
> 
> Maybe because it's using Clutter, and no WM other than Mutter allows
> displaying windows as Clutter actors? The Shell isn't external to the
> WM, it lives in the WM, and thus depends on its peculiarities.
> 

I don't believe it's Clutter. If I remember correctly they use DBus for 
interaction.