Re: Pager and Desktop Layout

[Jason Kasper <vr movingparts net>]

Are you saying KWin will no longer allow external entities to change its desktop layout configuration? Or just that KWin will stop using the manager selection? Or both?

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On Jul 31, 2011, at 11:18 PM, Martin Gräßlin <mgraesslin kde org> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> in the KDE Plasma Workspaces we introduced a change [1] for our next (Winter) release to let 
> only the window manager handle the desktop layout. This means we no longer support the 
> following section of the EWMH spec:
> 
> "This property is set by a Pager, not by the Window Manager. When setting this property, the 
> Pager must own a manager selection (as defined in the ICCCM 2.8). The manager selection is 
> called _NET_DESKTOP_LAYOUT_Sn where n is the screen number. The purpose of this 
> property is to allow the Window Manager to know the desktop layout displayed by the Pager."
> 
> In our case we do no longer use the manager selection at all and the pager gets the desktop 
> layout from the property set by the window manager (or the configuration module).
> 
> I just wanted to know if anybody out there is still compliant to that section of the spec. Given the 
> recent development of bringing desktop shell and compositor together I would assume that both 
> GNOME Shell and Unity do not support this any more. If that is the case I would suggest to 
> update this section of the spec.
> 
> Cheers
> Martin Gräßlin
> 
> [1] https://projects.kde.org/projects/kde/kdebase/kde-
> workspace/repository/revisions/4bf7761307a2453a63d918c60e13c26980727830
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