Re: Window Manager configuration utilities

[Greg Badros <gjb cs washington edu>]

Matthias Ettrich <ettrich@troll.no> writes:

> > Let's limit to the WM spec itself. Any extension (config tools, docu) will
> > only force ones or others of the WM authors now present here out of the
> > interest for this discussion.
> 
> 
> It seems we identified two different scopes on this list:
> 
>    1) Extended WM <-> Client communication for ordinary clients, i.e.
>        applications    
>    2) Propagation of WM internas for desktop-clients like panel/pager/taskbar
> 
> 1) is important to everybody, 2) is mainly relevant for KDE/Gnome. There's not
> much  point in supporting 2) in systems like fvwm, since they already offer
> desktop functionality. If I used fvwm, I wouldn't use kpanel, for instance.

Did my message about this not make it through to the list?  This was my
comment in a nutshell, but I've not yet seen any responses to what I
wrote.  Here's the message header I'm wondering about:

To: wm-spec-list@gnome.org
Subject: General comment and concerns about first drafts
From: Greg Badros <gjb@cs.washington.edu>
Date: 04 Jul 1999 12:32:50 -0700
Message-ID: <qrr7logfbx9.fsf@elwha.cs.washington.edu>
X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.45/XEmacs 20.4 - "Emerald"
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I can resend if the message was lost...

Thanks,
Greg