Are you saying KWin will no longer allow external entities to change its desktop layout configuration? Or just that KWin will stop using the manager selection? Or both?
-- -[ Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper // http://movingparts.net ]- -[ KDE PIM Developer // http://www.kde.org ]- -[ bash fun -> :(){ :|:&};: // Numbers 6:22-26 ]- On Jul 31, 2011, at 11:18 PM, Martin Gräßlin <mgraess...@kde.org> wrote: > Hi all, > > in the KDE Plasma Workspaces we introduced a change [1] for our next (Winter) > release to let > only the window manager handle the desktop layout. This means we no longer > support the > following section of the EWMH spec: > > "This property is set by a Pager, not by the Window Manager. When setting > this property, the > Pager must own a manager selection (as defined in the ICCCM 2.8). The manager > selection is > called _NET_DESKTOP_LAYOUT_Sn where n is the screen number. The purpose of > this > property is to allow the Window Manager to know the desktop layout displayed > by the Pager." > > In our case we do no longer use the manager selection at all and the pager > gets the desktop > layout from the property set by the window manager (or the configuration > module). > > I just wanted to know if anybody out there is still compliant to that section > of the spec. Given the > recent development of bringing desktop shell and compositor together I would > assume that both > GNOME Shell and Unity do not support this any more. If that is the case I > would suggest to > update this section of the spec. > > Cheers > Martin Gräßlin > > [1] https://projects.kde.org/projects/kde/kdebase/kde- > workspace/repository/revisions/4bf7761307a2453a63d918c60e13c26980727830 > _______________________________________________ > wm-spec-list mailing list > wm-spec-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/wm-spec-list _______________________________________________ wm-spec-list mailing list wm-spec-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/wm-spec-list
