Re: About window decorations

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

"Norman Black" <stonybrk ix netcom com> writes:
> 
> I have had many window managers ignore the decoration settings I have set.
> 

That's really not your problem though, it's a bug in the WM. Using
GTK_WINDOW_POPUP makes it broken for users who have a working WM, in
order to fix it for users who have a broken WM.

The only way to get things working all the time is for everyone to
follow the specs and do the right thing, and wait for everyone else to
fix their code. 

(e.g. cut-and-paste seems a bit hosed on X since some apps were
broken, then other apps broke themselves to work with the broken apps,
then the broken apps got fixed and no longer worked with the
workaround apps, etc. and it's gone around in an infinite cycle for
the last 15 years. Similarly for backspace/delete key behavior...)

Of course if working around the WM is the right tradeoff for your app,
feel free, but for the purposes of answering the question on a public
list I'd say GTK_WINDOW_POPUP is wrong.

Havoc