Re: Feature suggestions for GNOME-compliant WMs



[...]

>I suggest that GNOME-compliant window managers have two features that
>can be made available from the root menu:
>
>1) An "Exit" feature that would always simply terminate the window
>manager, period.
>
>2) A "Logout" feature that would 
>
>a) call "save-session --kill" (or some functional equivalent) if GNOME
>were running 
>
>b) exit the window manager if no desktop environment were detected to
>be running

[...]

>The basic idea is that power users can have a root menu entry that just
>exits the window manager if that's what the power user wants, while the
>"Logout" feature would do something more along the line of what
>end-users would expect.

Sounds like a fair enough suggestion, but does it really need to be put in 
the WM compliance spec? WM authors are aware of the problem of duplicating
Gnome functions, but some of them choose to do it anyway.  :)


Michael Rogers



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