issues for future version
- From: Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>
- To: wm-spec-list gnome org
- Subject: issues for future version
- Date: 28 Aug 2001 15:08:24 -0400
Hi,
I've added the patch recently posted to clarify use of the PID, and
also done s/UTF-8_STRING/UTF8_STRING/. Not on the website yet, but
will be soon.
Here are some outstanding changes to be made, some minor and some
hard. Most have been previously mentioned/discussed to some extent.
- "What's This?" protocol. Should allow a What's This button in the
window manager titlebar or in a global menubar as on the mac.
- Set a hint on the client giving the frame geometry.
- Full screen window state for presentation windows
- Minimized window state (allowing IconicState to mean any kind of
yanking offscreen)
- Note about how WMs should support the WM_Sn selection
- Hint for "requesting attention". On the Mac, you can cause a
little diamond to appear by your app in the task menu,
and the task menu icon blinks.
Perhaps just say that if the UrgencyHint flag in the ICCCM should
be interpreted in this way.
- Clarification of what window groups mean semantically. The
ICCCM says "a set of top-level windows that should be treated
from the user's point of view as related." Too vague. ;-)
Perhaps define that a window group should include all windows
that the user would consider a single application. So e.g.
gnome-terminal's current behavior where all terminals are
in the same window group is not correct.
- Define what to do if you only support maximization but not vert/horiz
independently. i.e. if a client requests vertical but not
horizontal, do you fullscreen maximize?
- Add note that "HORZ" is indeed intended, do not use "HORIZ" ;-)
What else do we need to cover?
Havoc
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