Re: [christiqua@yahoo.dk: Look at KDE]

[Mike Palczewski <mpalczew w-link net>]

> ->  > What's also nice in KDE is that the desktop icons stay in some "secure"
> ->  > distance off the panel(s), here (gmc-4.5.24) my top most icon get's lost
> ->  > below my top panel, maybe there is some way for the WM to let applications
> ->  > (in this case gmc) now "stay off this and that area on the root window"
> ->  > (ideally this would work dynamically, e.g. I move my panel and the icons
> ->  > get moved automatically> ->  
> ->  icewm already does all if not most of this stuff.  its not a gnome thing
> ->  its more of a wm thing.
> 
> E does this too - with windows it has a choise of positioning and
> resizieng - this is a gmc issue ad gcm explicitly asks to have icons
> placed at certain X,Y co-ordinates.

icewm moves gmc's icons whenever a panel moves.  maybe you are saying that
this SHOULD be a gmc issue but it can be handled by the window
manager.  

Mike