Re: Pending EWMH additions

[Michael Toomim <toomim OCF Berkeley EDU>]

Havoc Pennington wrote:

I tried to post about this earlier but my message got eaten.  Here's a 
summary.

> +  <para>
> +  The virtual desktops are arranged in a rectangle
> +  with X rows and Y columns.  If X times Y does not match the total number of
> +  desktops as specified by
> +  <literal>_NET_NUMBER_OF_DESKTOPS</literal>, the highest-numbered
> +  workspaces are assumed to be nonexistent. Either X or Y (but not
> +  both) may be specified as 0 in which case its actual value will be
> +  derived from <literal>_NET_NUMBER_OF_DESKTOPS</literal>.

I don't like allowing either X or Y to be zero, and think this special 
case is an unnecessary complication to the protocal.  Can we change this 
so that "both X and Y must be specified"?

I implemented the WM-side of this spec in sawfish, and the special case 
was annoying.