Re: default values for client messages

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 01:27:00PM +0200, Lubos Lunak wrote:
> On Thursday 15 of May 2003 20:10, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> > On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 04:12:32PM +0200, Lubos Lunak wrote:
> > >  any objections against committing the attached changes? The patch only
> > > add a couple of 'other data.l[] elements = 0' to descriptions of various
> > > messages used in the spec, in order to allow possible future extensions
> > > (see my other mail). KDE apps do this already anyway, but when I grepped
> > > Gtk I noticed it has unused fields uninitialized.
> >
> 
>  I committed the patch. I also checked Qt/KDE that they initialize all unused 
> fields to 0. Can you tell somebody responsible for Gtk to do this?

I filed a GTK bug for it, should get taken care of.
 
> > These look like a good idea. We should maybe go ahead and add
> > timestamp fields to some while we're at it - e.g. _NET_CLOSE_WINDOW
> 
>  Yes, I'd need something like this at least for _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW for focus 
> stealing prevention. To which messages should this be added? I don't see how 
> it could be useful for _NET_CLOSE_WINDOW.

As Mark says, needed for the ping timestamp.

I owe you a response on your longer mail about focus etc....

Havoc