Re: Pager and Desktop Layout

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?

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On Jul 31, 2011, at 11:18 PM, Martin Gräßlin <[email protected]> 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
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