Re: a need for accessing the internal number for Gtk2::Gdk::Atom

[Torsten Schoenfeld <kaffeetisch gmx de>]

csincock-gmail wrote:
> I'm writing a simple standalone systray application using gtk2-perl.
> In the process I've discovered a few shortcomings in the current 
> bindings. One (the most important) of these is that to implement the 
> protocol described by the freedesktop systray spec, my application 
> needs to send a client-message event containing an actual atom number 
> (as opposed to the wrapper object used by the perl bindings), but the 
> Gtk2::Gdk::Atom class currently has no way to access the internal 
> number. The ICCCM standards require (for example) passing atom numbers
> in client-event messages. Therefore I believe adding an accessor for
> the internal number is warranted. I don't see any way this can be done
> automatically by the bindings, because the contents of the 'data' field 
> of the client messages is not strongly typed but is defined more by
> conventions (eg ICCCM).

chris provided a patch for this in 
<http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=566884>, following Kevin's 
suggestion.  The patch is now committed.