Fix for tear-off toolbars



Hello GNOMErs -

	Here is a patch to gtkhandlebox to use motif wm hints to cause no
decoration on tear-off toolbars and menubars. This means that any wm that
supports motif wm hints like mwm (duh), fvwm2 (and derivatives?), and icewm
will now show no decorations. I thought it better to use some existing
standard than make a new one and have to patch whatever window manager one
chooses.

Just un-tgz this file in the gtk+/gtk directory and "patch -s < wmhints.patch"

This file also contains MwmUtil.h from the lesstif package. Mucho thanks to
the lesstif people.

One the subject of window managers, I feel like although GNOME "has no
official wm," everything points to E. I do not like that. The theme support
for gtk, the fact that raster is the only wm maintainer on the GNOME dev
team, etc. It is like saying "use whatever wm you want, but only E is cozy
with GNOME."
So I have been patching up icewm to work nicely with the GNOME panel and
improving the mwm hints support. I have removed the start menu and fixed
the icewm toolbar to just do a window-list sort of thing in conjunction
with the panel. I have also made it look more gtk-ish. It looks really
nice. What I would like to know is what exactly does GNOME need a wm to do?
Lots of people seem to think we need One True wm, but I feel I can (and
will, I promise) patch icewm to do anything that any other wm can do. It
even has theme support very similar to E. And with a port of wmx on the way
from Elliot Lee, that gives GNOME users a choice from at least three window
managers to use. That seems to me to be very good. Now all we need is for
someone to patch (if necessary) fvwm. Then EVERYONE can be happy. Except
maybe those pie menu people. BTW, Is fvwm2 still maintained? It has been at
2.0.46 beta forever.



Sorry for the ramble, long day.

M.Watson redline at pdq dot net


Hb-patch.tgz


                


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