Re: WM Extended Spec Summary, 6/21/99

[Matthias Ettrich <ettrich troll no>]

On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, Miguel de Icaza wrote:
> > 2) CORBA in wm, not! All a WM need to communicate with the desktop can be
> > done with X.
> 
> Any particular reasons?  Or it is just a policy decision?
> 
> Using CORBA basically means scripting languages could talk to Window
> managers and programatically control the desktop.

So what is it application needs to communicate with the WM? It's showing
windows,  hiding windows, moving windows to other desktops, iconifying windows
etc. All is done currently with a few simply, well defined X-calls. So there's
no need to put an additional burden on WM developers.

It's trivial to add a wrapping application that provides an interface to access
these properties, thus making the wm scriptable. It's even more trivial to put
these functions in a shared library.

Matthias