Steve Litt writes:
I'm not sure the preceding sentence yields a mutual exclusivity, but yes, I really would like that history lesson, as this is something that has bothered me for a long time.
The WM is regulated by the ICCCP, which basically talks about how windows interact with each other and with the screen. That's not very much of what windows in a DE need to coordinate, though, and little of the other stuff would fit naturally in the ICCCP. XDND could, but that's the only example I can thing of else.
For example, a rule such as "either all apps or none support printing to fax" is not a WM matter. (And not a printcap matter either, you have to ask for the fax number.) Or "apps have their l10n language set by ONE setting, not one per app", or "either all apps can read from onedrive/googledrive or none", or "if any pair of apps have the same command, then they use the same keyboard shortcut for that command".
The early KDE developers held a session at a place called Arnsberg where the scope of this was hashed out for the KDE. The list on the whiteboard was 10-15 items long (in general terms, not such details as fax).
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