Re: Work in Progress: draft 1.9a

[Michael ROGERS <M Rogers cs ucl ac uk>]

>>         _NET* window manager hints,protocols... proposal draft 1.9a
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>> _NET_SUPPORTED, CARDINAL/32
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>> This property is supposed to be set by the window manager to indicate
>> whether the protocol is supported and up to which version.
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>> [[Is this flexible enough? Would it be better to have a list of
>> supported atoms?]]
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>I think that a list of supported atoms would be better. There should
>be a way for the external apps to know if they can do something or
>not. (adding desktops for example)

I'd also prefer a list of supported atoms, to allow more flexibility. 
Applications can't assume much about the way hints will be handled (for 
example, if they ask for shaded state and the wm doesn't support it, they 
might get iconified instead). A list of atoms would help to clarify some of 
this for application authors, because they would be able to check that a hint 
is supported before using it. Perhaps they should be divided in terms of 
functionality rather than having one atom for each hint which is supported 
(for example, MWM function hints are supported, all toolbar-related hints are 
supported, multiple desktops are supported, viewports are not supported).

>wmx + gnome! (Alan Cox uses it! ok, so it's a heavily
>modified version, but still...) 
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>http://www.nidal.com/~henri/wmx

I use a modified version of wm2 with Gnome - wmx has too many features.  ;)


Michael Rogers