Re: is metacity _really_ ICCCM-compliant ?

[Rob Adams <readams readams net>]

Metacity doesn't set the window type for menus; that's the
responsibility of the owning application.  Most popup menus though are
override redirect, which means that the window type and transient hint
is totally irrelevant; these would only matter for a managed window.

So this is certainly not a metacity bug, though it may arguably be a
very minor cosmetic gtk bug.  But as for bugs on specific
implementations, you should report bugs directly to the relevant bug
tracking system; for gnome:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org

-Rob

On Tue, 2004-09-07 at 09:53 +0200, Michael Boccara wrote:
> When querying properties of metacity's windows, I noticed they are not
> really compliant with the specs described in
> http://freedesktop.org/Standards/wm-spec/1.3
> 
> For example, when querying the _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE of a popup menu, I should
> get _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_MENU and have the WM_TRANSIENT_FOR atom set to my
> application window.
> Instead, the type is _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_NORMAL, and WM_F|TRANSIENT_FOR is
> not set.
> 
> I am using
> Red Hat Advanced Server 3.0
> 
> Is the lack of ICCCM-compliancy a known issue for metacity ?
> Because the following page
> http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/metacity/COMPLIANCE?view=markup
> pretends that metacity is compliant, at least concerning the
> _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE property
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Michael
> 
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