Re: Questions regarding Spec 1.1

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Philipp Lohmann <Philipp Lohmann Sun COM> writes:
> 
> what about backwards compatibility ? Of course it wouldn't break that 
> much if implementations simply switched to HORZ instead of HORIZ. Or 
> should one support both if writing an application ? What will e.g. KDE do 
> ?
> 

My view is that the right thing for apps and window managers is to
never work around each other in areas where there's a clear spec. 

If you start doing workarounds you can never get things to work
properly, since both sides (app, WM) become moving targets.

This is why X clipboards still don't work quite right, because apps
keep working around each other.

Havoc