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

[Derek Simkowiak <dereks kd-dev com>]

> > 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?
[...]
> It could be a separate level of compliance.  Given that ORBit's
> footprint is what most mathematicians would have defined as epsilon I
> could envision this being a nice addition to bring Unix into the
> future.

	If we define a spec for a Gnome class of window managers (see
previous discussion), Corba integration could be part of that spec.

	But I really doubt your general window manager author will go
through the ORBit linking (and learning curve!) just to have Gnome
compliance.


--Derek