Re: [Usability]Window titles and WM_* properties

[Gregory Merchan <merchan phys lsu edu>]

On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 05:00:33PM -0500, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> Gregory Merchan <merchan baton phys lsu edu> writes:  
> > As for WM authors: AFAIK, there may be only 2 that have written ICCCM 2.0
> > compliant window managers. Those are the authors of FVWM and MWM.
> > 
> > Metacity, Sawfish, E16, PWM, TWM, KWM, and surely others I've forgotten
> > were checked a few weeks ago and all failed a simple test because they
> > don't manage WM_Sn.
> 
> Everyone who doesn't handle WM_Sn knows it full well and simply
> doesn't care much. It has nothing to do with reading or not reading
> the spec.

I said nothing about WM authors having read the spec or not. I said that
hardly anyone does. Stop mixing things up.


> > >            . . . - e.g. if the window manager could do 
> > > "sprintf ("%s - %s", appname, documentname)" or something - 
> > 
> > That's a lousy way to name a window, even if Netscape 4.x does so.
> > The document name should come first.
> >
> 
> Have you ever heard of the concept of an "example"

It was a bad example.


> Anyway, no one is going to use WM_CLASS for this. So it's not worth
> arguing.
> 
> Havoc

Speak for yourself.

While you're at it, you might admit you were wrong rather than now trying to
push the matter aside as irrelevant.


Get real,
Greg Merchan