Re: "GNOME Window Manager Compliance" document

["Elijah Newren" <newren gmail com>]

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 7:11 AM, Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com> wrote:
> Is there a more up-to-date version of this document somewhere?
> http://developer.gnome.org/doc/standards/wm/book1.html
> (It's also called "GNOME Window Manager specification" on another page.)
> Is it still useful? I doubt it because it hasn't really been changed for
> 9 years.

This document is not useful (other than as a historical artifact).  In
fact, using it could be considered harmful, since the desktop-specific
hints have been deprecated and obsoleted by the EWMH, the latter being
available at http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/wm-spec.
I don't think Metacity even supports the old hints anymore.

> The HTML seems to have been generated from DocBook:
> http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/web-devel-2/trunk/content/doc/standards/wm/
> Does someone know where that DocBook source is?
>
> There is this document too, though it doesn't seem to be linked from
> anywhere:
> http://developer.gnome.org/doc/standards/extwmhints/book1.html

That looks like an early draft of the EWMH.

> We would like to move useful developer.gnome.org documents to
> library.gnome.org so they can be maintained properly, but they need to
> be DocBook. Or where appropriate I'd like to even just remove any crap
> from the Internet.

Remove the crap!

Thanks for working on this,
Elijah

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