Re: desktop layout patch

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Michael Toomim <toomim uclink4 berkeley edu> writes: 
> ... what is this special case for?  Can we just keep the spec clean,
> and say that both X and Y MUST have non-zero values?
> 
> I wrote a sawfish extension using this protocol for
> select-workspace-up/down/right/left commands, and found this special
> case annoying.  It basically just adds another set of if statements to
> a section of code that's contorted already, and I don't see the point.
> 
> This was a part of Waldo's original proposal.  Does anyone know the
> motivation?  If not, can we strike it out?
> 

I can't think of a reason to have it offhand, really, no.

Havoc