Re: Small change to _NET_CURRENT_DESKTOP messages?

[Lubos Lunak <l lunak suse cz>]

On Monday 28 of February 2005 19:34, Elijah Newren wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 19:11:57 +0100, Lubos Lunak <l lunak suse cz> wrote:
> > and the less obvious that with even older apps the field may be
> > uninitialized. It wasn't _that_ long ago when I added all those "other
> > data.l[] elements = 0", and I think at least the GNOME implementation
> > hadn't been doing this before this change.
> >
> >  *checking*
> >
> >  Slightly less than two years ago, actually. I wonder if we can start
> > more or less ignoring such old implementations by now.
>
> Well, we've done so for things like _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW, right?  If
> we're really worried about this, then I think we'd have to rename
> _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW and anything else that has had any fields added.
> Personally, given that the _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW addition seems to be
> fine, I think we should ignore these older implementations, just as we
> have to ignore buggy clients that break the spec.

 The difference with _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW is that there's additionally the 
source indication field, which has only two non-trivial usable contents (1 or 
2) when the timestamp field is used. But still, I think the change is fine.

-- 
Lubos Lunak
KDE developer
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