Re: Bug reports for 0.99 RPMs

[Gleef <dzol virtual-yellow com>]

On Thu, 17 Dec 1998, Knut Neumann wrote:

> At 11:35 17.12.98 -0500, you wrote:
> >thats because the panel is a normal WM client - thus when it slides it
> >involves not just a trip to the Xserver but a trip to X, then a trip
> 
> As a total idiot in how X and WMs work...wouldnt that suggest to find a
> workaround for that...maybe making a gnome-compliant wm aware of the panel
> and thus treating it a special window? Anything planed in that direction -
> or just impossible from the coders point of view?

Actually it went the other direction.  Panel has been a special window for
a while, and now gnome-compliant window managers (like enlightenment) are
making it a managed window so that it can interact better with window
placement and other WM functions.

-Gleef