Re: WM_NAME vs. _NET_WM_NAME
- From: "Jasper St. Pierre" <jstpierre mecheye net>
- To: Thomas Lübking <thomas luebking gmail com>
- Cc: "hlwm lists herbstluftwm org" <hlwm lists herbstluftwm org>, "wm-spec-list gnome org" <wm-spec-list gnome org>
- Subject: Re: WM_NAME vs. _NET_WM_NAME
- Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 09:19:39 -0700
The rationale for having both is unclear, but for reference, WM_NAME is of ICCCM encoding (meaning it's one of six thousand possible encodings, specified by the TYPE atom), while _NET_WM_NAME is guaranteed to be UTF8, which is just a lot simpler. So, consider WM_NAME deprecated, and _NET_WM_NAME the replacement.
We might just want to fix the wm spec as Thomas suggests, rewording it to "If set, the Window Manager MUST use this in preference to WM_NAME"
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