> > From another message today, I see Sean says it wouldn't be too hard to > add WM spec to blackbox. I am axiously looking forward to this, and > would be elated if only the easy ones were added. :) Actually, I'll be > happy if I don't have to wait another year for the next stable > release. :)) >
I am afraid that if I half implement the spec I will break some app that expects both feature A and feature B to be implemented when only A or B actually is. In particular the window list code is partivularly troublesome because bb stores that info in the workspace, not as one long list. The NET WM spec assumes you can easily say "here is every window I know about". This is not true currently. Others are just the same bb code emitting a different ATOM or just slightly different semantics. Those are the easy ones. A stable release will arrive as soon as the bugs 0.61.2 (both mine and from patches) introduced are ironed out. There will likely be one or two more 0.61.x releases. There will probably then be either a 62.x or maybe 70.x release which begins to actually add functionality. When the NET WM spec is implemented I would like all of the bbtools to drop the blackbox wm protocols which means syncing everyone's development with blackbox's.
