Re: desktop manager selection

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

On Tue, 2003-05-20 at 08:51, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> > 
> >  Hello,
> > 
> >  as already discussed with Alexander Larsson, and with Havoc before, the 
> > manager selection that will prevent Nautilus from killing KDesktop. I
> > didn't 
> > find a better place in spec where to put it than this :(. Ok to commit?
> 
> It would be good to refer to the implementation note from the part of the
> spec that explains the
> window type _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_DESKTOP.
> 
> I think we should make the manager selection a bit more useful by specifying
> a target which 
> third-party apps can use to obtain the window id of the desktop window, and
> adjust the previous paragraph to refer to that target instead of an
> unspecified root window property.

Maybe just say that the desktop window itself has to own the selection?

For people using a toolkit, it really doesn't matter, but if you 
are programming in raw Xlib, XGetSelectionOwner() is considerably
easier than retrieving a target.

Regards,
                                                Owen