Re: MWM hints

[Lubos Lunak <l lunak suse cz>]

On Friday 29 of November 2002 20:55, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> Hi,
>
> While digging through the archives for something else, I noticed this
> thread which IIRC we never did anything about:
>
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/wm-spec-list/2001-December/msg00044.html
>
> I suspect WMs vary wildly in what they do with MWM hints right now.

 I'd rather prefer ignore MWM completely, and if necessary, include some of 
the needed features in the spec This will be the 'no decorations' flags only 
anyway, I think. KWin until recently supported only this one, and nobody 
really complained, besides some Motif developers who didn't know how to 
ignore WM_DELETE_WINDOW, and simply used the no-close-button hint - and after 
the user closed the window using the close button in KWin, the app crashed 
(that's why I added support for few more MWM hints).

 I'm afraid we'll need the no-decorations flag anyway. Currently KWin has 
_KDE_NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_OVERRIDE which basically means no-decorations, and it 
is currently awfully missused in various places. However, I remember that 
when I checked if it could go away, I found some places where I didn't find 
any good replacement (sorry, I don't remember exactly the reasons, I'd have 
to do a full check to find it).

-- 
Lubos Lunak
KDE developer
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