Bug#155680: PROPOSAL ] bump priority of window managers whic

2002-08-12 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 13-Aug-2002 Colin Walters wrote: > Well, are we basically in rough consensus about this now? > > Here's an updated patch which just makes the priority increase 20 > instead of 30. > sure.

Bug#155680: PROPOSAL ] bump priority of window managers whic

2002-08-07 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> >> (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 pr

Bug#155680: PROPOSAL ] bump priority of window managers whic

2002-08-06 Thread Colin Walters
On Tue, 2002-08-06 at 21:12, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > Your proposal is based on the assumption that: > > ICCCM < NETWM > > and that obviously netwm should take precedence. But netwm support is only > really useful if the user is using other netwm apps. At the moment (and I do > not really

Bug#155680: PROPOSAL ] bump priority of window managers whic

2002-08-06 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 06-Aug-2002 Colin Walters wrote: > [ no need to CC me, I read -policy ] > > On Tue, 2002-08-06 at 15:55, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > >> I think the real thing to say is GNOME, KDE, etc should not ask for >> x-window-manager but netwm-window-manager. > > That is another, equally valid altern

Bug#155680: PROPOSAL ] bump priority of window managers whic

2002-08-06 Thread Colin Walters
[ no need to CC me, I read -policy ] On Tue, 2002-08-06 at 15:55, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > I think the real thing to say is GNOME, KDE, etc should not ask for > x-window-manager but netwm-window-manager. That is another, equally valid alternative¹. I don't have a strong opinion about which

Bug#155680: PROPOSAL ] bump priority of window managers whic

2002-08-06 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> > I'd like to hear some feedback from X experts on this, esp. Branden. > I also think it would be good if Gnome had some sort of tropism for > metacity/sawfish outside of the x-window-manager alternative, but > that's somewhat orthogonal to this proposal. > > However, I have a gut feeling that