Hey, On 9 August 2011 04:37, Kurt H Maier <karmaf...@gmail.com> wrote: > This might be the historical reason these exist, but they were > conceived before the advent of modern tiling window managers, and imo > clients shouldn't be managing themselves anyway.
I think the window manager should do whatever the user asks. Assuming the hint isn't abused by broken clients (I guess that may be quite an assumption), I think it ought to be respected. Someone on IRC said they use -geom and have to special-case every program for it. On 9 August 2011 14:18, Bryan Bennett <bbenn...@gmail.com> wrote: > confusing users by breaking the > consistency of how DWM handles windows (tiles them always). It doesn't tile them always. Transient clients are floated, always. That's just a WM_TRANSIENT_FOR hint, which of course can be a lie, etc etc. Ultimately I think it's a subjective thing, which is annoying. I'm fairly ambivalent -- though I think it's useful to support hints like this, the user experience trumps all. (Didn't you hear UX is the 'in thing'?) So I'll leave this patch here and if Anselm wants to honour the hint it in he can merge it. If not, people who want the functionality can patch it in themselves. I've finished looking through about a third of the EWMH standard, and some of these hints are just plain ridiculous. I've found a couple of bugs we ought to fix, which I'll post later, but I think the majority of these we're justified in ignoring. Thanks, cls
