On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 04:13:41PM -0700, Christian Hammond wrote: > The piece of code I'm working on now is an experiment at the moment, but > it will be part of a full-blown feature we're working on, one which I'm > sure will be very popular. I can't talk about the feature in detail > (unless either of you want to sign an NDA, which I can probably arrange), > as it hasn't been announced yet, but not having this support will have a > serious impact on this feature's usability.
I appreciate these issues, but I also hope you realize there are some fundamental difficulties with convincing a free standards group to mandate some behavior in N different window manager projects, just on your word that it will allow one proprietary app to have a totally cool feature that is best implemented and set in stone in this way that I came up with and no-one has reviewed, trust me. I mean, these might be all true... but I'm not sure how, as hopefully-responsible engineers, we can just accept them without checking for ourselves, or convince projects that they should bother implementing/maintaining this feature with no more to go on than your word. Do you have any ideas? If the problem is just that it needs to remain a secret for a while longer, you may have more luck adding support for a custom (not _NET_WM_*) extension to a few important window managers, convincing their maintainers to take the patch, and then worry about pushing it up into EWMH once the feature is out and there is some real-world experience with it. (Also, umm... is "lack of wobbly windows" really a "serious impact"? Though I guess you can't really explain why things would affect usability, either.) -- Nathaniel -- The Universe may / Be as large as they say But it wouldn't be missed / If it didn't exist. -- Piet Hein _______________________________________________ wm-spec-list mailing list wm-spec-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/wm-spec-list