Re: NET WM Spec implementation and changes

[John Harper <john dcs warwick ac uk>]

Bradley T. Hughes writes:
|#4 _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE
|	I don't recall when this was made to be a list of atoms, but
|	for simplicity this has been changed to an enumerated value.
...
|
|#5 _NET_WM_STATE
|	Again, this has been changed from a list of atoms to a bitfield of
|	the following values (OR'ed together)

Could you explain to me how this is more "simple"?

To me the list of atoms is simpler, cleaner and more extensible

Or do you mean simpler to implement in C?

(When I was implementing the draft spec for sawfish, this seemed to be
the biggest improvement over the old spec -- fewer magic numbers!)

thanks,

	John