Re: move/resize handling again

[Dominik Vogt <dominik vogt gmx de>]

On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 08:35:56PM -0500, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 01:56:35AM +0100, Dominik Vogt wrote: 
> >  - An EWMH compliant application MUST conform to the ICCCM way.
> >  - A compliant application MUST set some property of its window to
> >    document compliance.
> >  - A compliant window manager MUST conform to the ICCCM way when
> >    it detects said property on a client window.
> >  - If the property is not present on a window the window manager
> >    SHOULD use the legacy way as there are many applications that
> >    do not comply to the ICCCM rule.
> >  - Applications that are currently not EWMH compliant SHOULD be
> >    changed to become ICCCM compliant and set said property, or do
> >    not set it and use the legacy way (not recommended).
> 
> I guess where I would disagree here is that I see no evidence that
> legacy apps depend on a single behavior. It seems that historically
> window managers are broken in six dozen different ways, and apps also
> are.
> 
> Basically I don't know what the "legacy way" *is* ;-)
> Is it "what mwm does"? "what twm does"?

The legacy way is to ignore win_gravity for ConfigureRequest and
always use StaticGravity.

Bye

Dominik ^_^  ^_^

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