Re: Autoplacement hint
- From: Mike McCormack <mike codeweavers com>
- To: Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>
- Cc: Ben Jansens <ben openbox org>, Rob Adams <readams readams net>, wm-spec-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: Autoplacement hint
- Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 12:39:52 +0900
Havoc Pennington wrote:
> The least-buggy steady state of the whole system is definitely for
> everyone to follow the specs; if everyone starts trying to work around
> everyone else you get a big mess. Adding a "but I really mean it this
> time!" hint doesn't help IMO. ;-)
>
> Havoc
Hi Havoc,
The reason why different window managers do different things is that the
ICCCM specification is unclear about what the window manager should do
with PPosition and USPosition.
The ICCCM only talks about "user involvement" in the section on
US/PPosition, and does not eliminate the posibility of the WM moving the
window.
I think a clarification of what should be done would be a reasonable
thing to add to the EWMH specification, since there are already other
clarifications on the ICCCM in Implemenation Notes section.
At least if I choose to follow the path of saying to my users "Your
window manager is not compliant with specifications", give me something
solid to back up my assertion...
Mike
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