Re: WM-SPEC - what needs to happen for release ?

["Bradley T. Hughes" <bhughes trolltech com>]

On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, Julian Adams wrote:

> Hi guys - this is about the wm-spec. I was wondering what people thought
> of the state of things. Judging by the lack of posting it looks like
> either:
> 
> 1) It's time to release a 1.0 version
> 2) The project is dead
> 
> hopefully 1) :)
> 
> The only item which I can think of which might be worth adding at this
> time would be guidelines on how to add non-standard extensions to the
> spec without causing mutual (protocol level) incompatibility. Presumably
> at both Gnome and Kde must require this, so I was wondering if there are
> moves happening to use the spec, and what approaches to this you've used
> ?
> 
> Bradley posted an example implementation some time ago. Now this varies
> somewhat from the current state of the spec, and contains KDE specific
> additions. Is there an update to this ?

There has been quite a few updates since I initially posted the code,
but none on the protocol level... only bug fixes and the like (64 bit
cleannes of icon code was especially nasty ;))

I don't recall the exact differences, but if necessary I can take some
time in the next couple of days to put together a differences list.

> Despite the length of time that it has taken to get to this stage I
> think it would be great to get the 1.0 version tied up, and to have at
> least both KDE and GNOME adopt it as a common baseline.

FWIW, KDE2 is already using the NET spec, based on the classes that I
wrote.  As proof of concept (and design), I would say that this spec is
ready.

> Later,
> 
> Julian
> 

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