Re: another gmc weirdness

[Federico Mena Quintero <federico redhat com>]

>  > This is a known problem.  Fixing it would consist of getting the list
>  > of virtual root windows (which I contend are a bad idea in the first
>  > place), and hooking the necessary DnD signals to them.  I'll be happy
>  > to take a patch to do this.
>  
>  Hmm.. Doesn't sound amazingly difficult.  Why is it a bad idea?  

Virtual root windows are a bad idea because

	- X clients are written with the assumption that there is only
          One True root window.

	- The X guys determined a long time ago that they can't be
          done reliably without an X extension.

The new gnome-wm spec may solve these issues.  If you want to fix
this, you should talk to the people who are working on the new window
manager specification.

  Federico