Re: proposed addition to EWMH: _NET_WM_NORMAL_GEOMETRY
Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) <[email protected]>
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On Fri, 27 Jul 2007 20:05:19 -0700 "Mark Tiefenbruck" <[email protected]> babbled: > > i disagree with the ordering - -geometry is the way it is because of parsing > > ans spacing - this is a command-lin e argument. different from PROPERITES. > > all other netwm PROPERTIES are X,Y,WIDTH,HEIGHT - which is actually the > > most common order you see such geometry in API calls for creating and > > moving/resizing windows, drawing boxes etc. etc. i see no good reason to > > re-order the arguments in a property based on the ordering in just 1 > > command-line argument. > > Fair enough. It was a rather arbitrary decision, anyway. I figured > there might be circumstances where size would be provided but not > coordinates. On the other hand, maybe just the opposite will occur > with future _NET_WM_STATE properties. I don't think there's a natural > way to allow for these with just one window property, anyway. > > Any other problems? not really - we already do this for e17 - but we have our own specific properties we use to allow the wm to pass on state between restarts - haven't made any attempt to pass it onto other wm's or make it stable/well defined though. -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) [email protected] 裸好多 Tokyo, Japan (東京 日本) _______________________________________________ wm-spec-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/wm-spec-list