Re: [Usability]Window titles and WM_* properties

[Gregory Merchan <merchan phys lsu edu>]

On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 08:54:26AM -0500, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> CLASS/NAME/ROLE are very much not intended to be user-visible. They're
> in the wrong encoding and used for purposes other than titling the
> window. Also they aren't supposed to change over window lifecycle, and
> window title definitely can.
> 
> If you want the WM to be able to assemble the title on the fly new
> hints are needed, not broken overloadings of old hints.
> 
> Havoc