For what it's worth - I was the original contributor of the GNOME patch to CTWM, and I think it has outlived its usefulness and should be removed. I never got around to full implementation anyway - there's only support for the parts that were easy to do. GNOME moved to using the EWMH hints (in place of its own, similar hints) years ago. I can't imagine there are many people left running GNOME 1, never mind using it in combination with CTWM.
I'm personally no longer using either GNOME or CTWM so I haven't kept up with the latest EWMH developments. Without looking at the code, I would think that there could be conflicts between the GNOME and EWMH support, since they have hints with different names but identical purposes. Nathan On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 03:01:32AM -0500, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: > > Considering a thread yesterday, let's take up the question. > > Should we remove the USE_GNOME stuff? > > - If it's completely broken or actively dangerous, it should be > removed, unless somebody is gonna fix it. > > I don't (or didn't; Richard's experience building it was > unsettling) think it's totally broken. If it is, I don't think > anybody's gonna care enough to work on it. > > - If it can't do anything we don't do without it, it should be > removed. > > That, I'm pretty sure, isn't the case. The EWMH stuff is a > replacement for the _functionality_ of the GNOME extensions, but > it uses a different mechanism, so the two aren't interchangeable > at all in the sense of applications using them. > > Now, whether applications using it are around enough that it > matters is a separate question, and I would lean toward being > generous in assuming it. > > > If it does what it's supposed to, I would favor keeping it as long as > there's any real chance somebody might get used out of it. And, since > it doesn't add external dependancies or any real weight to > compile/runtime, turning it on. Having it around but off by default > just adds to the chances of it rotting, which is the worst of all > worlds. > > That's an if, though, and I'm not sure I've got anything around that > could be using it, so I'm not in a position to have any sort of > overwhelming opinion. > > > -- > Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | [email protected] > Systems/Network Administrator | http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/ > On the Internet, nobody can hear you scream. >
