On Tue, 6 Apr 2004, Mike Hearn wrote: > Well, one way forward is to implement another mode, in which Wine makes > all windows managed and uses a variety of WM hints to get the desired > behaviour. For instance, the PPosition flag asks the WM to place the > window where the application requests it to. Some WMs respect this, others > do not, in yet others it's a toggleable option. For people with WMs that > meet the requirements of Wine all windows could be made managed, and for > people that don't use such WMs the old way can still be used.
I personally think we should not care about non-compliant WMs. You use one of those, you suffer the consequences. We can't operate in a vacuum, there are standards, and we must be able to rely on something. But this, I'm afraid, besides the point. This entire discussion assumes that the Win32 windows are mapped to X windows. If IIRC, Alexandre was saying that we need to switch back to the old ways, where we handle most of the windowing code. In which case I guess a lot of this will go away. -- Dimi.
