On Tuesday 18 April 2006 16:00, Dan Winship wrote: > Soeren Sandmann wrote: > > The use of MUST means 'other applications, including but not limited > > to the window manager, can rely on pagers sending a > > _NET_CURRENT_DESKTOP message when they wish to switch virtual > > desktop'. > > If a Client wants to know when a property changes, it needs to watch for > PropertyNotify events on the root window. Watching for the ClientMessage > is no good, because it has no way of knowing whether or not the WM will > act on the request. (But the WM MUST update the _NET_CURRENT_DESKTOP > property when the desktop changes.)
I guess what Soeren meant was rather that MUST means that pagers will ask the WM to do the change and not try some hacks themselves. > > Lubos Lunak wrote: > > That MUST means that the client should change the property by asking > > the WM and not by fiddling with it itself. > > If we want to say that clients MUST NOT fiddle with the WM's properties, > then we should say, at the top of the Root Window Properties section, > that clients MUST NOT fiddle with the WM's properties. The current spec > does not actually forbid that in most cases. Descriptions of the properties say things like "the property is set by the WM" or similar as far as I can see. Which ones lack anything like that? > > > most of those sentences now > > read like if those required ways of changing things were just some > > kind of convenience methods that one is not required to use. > > OK, but all of the messages I *didn't* change in my patch were already > using "can". Should we change those to "MUST"? Then I suppose the right word should be SHOULD. -- 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
