> >> (I still want to hear what Branden has to say about all of this, too.) > > I haven't firmly made up my mind yet. > > Can someone tell me what the relationship between WMSP, "netwm", and > the EWMH spec is? >
netwm is the name for the spec referred to in the original mail of this policy proposal. The name comes from the hints NET_WM_*. WMSP is the same thing. GNOME and KDE each invented their own wm specs initially. At the same time E was also coming up with ways for the wm to communicate with 3rd party pagers and the like. Everyone agreed to get together and codify a common standard. GNOME 1.x uses the GNOME hints and was the last group to support the standard.
