On Tuesday 11 April 2006 02:29, Matthias Clasen wrote: > On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 09:02 +0900, Carsten Haitzler wrote: > > so my point - it's not a pi break at all adding extra enumerations. the > > code should have already handled the case of an enumeration it doesn't > > know about to start with in some "sane" fashion. > > This is not about trusting values from properties (which of course, you > must not do), it is about GDK apis which have a C enum for the possible > values of the window type. Adding new values does indeed force us to > break the api by adding new values to the enumeration. I do agree that > the api break is minor and that we should probably do it, but it is an > api break, unless the enumeration is explicitly documented as "may grow > new values", which is isn't.
Then you have a serious problem I'm afraid - _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE is designed to grow and it has already done so a couple of times. -- Lubos Lunak KDE developer --------------------------------------------------------------------- SuSE CR, s.r.o. e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] , [EMAIL PROTECTED] Drahobejlova 27 tel: +420 2 9654 2373 190 00 Praha 9 fax: +420 2 9654 2374 Czech Republic http://www.suse.cz/ _______________________________________________ wm-spec-list mailing list wm-spec-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/wm-spec-list
