Re: Re: Pager and Desktop Layout

Martin Gräßlin <[email protected]> Tue, 02 Aug 2011 18:56:13 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnome.wm-spec
Message-ID <28556207.Q7gctsGH1C@martin-desktop>
On Tuesday 02 August 2011 11:32:49 Lubos Lunak wrote:
> On Monday 01 of August 2011, Martin Gräßlin wrote:
> > On Monday 01 August 2011 11:28:45 Jason Kasper wrote:
> > > 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?
> > In fact the pager plasmoid is stopping to use the manager selection 
> > and not setting the desktop layout any more. The desktop layout is
> > initially set by kwin and can be updated through the multiple desktops kcm.
> > If other processes change the desktop layout KWin will adjust the layout
> > though it may be that the setting change is lost when restarting KWin.
> 
>  If the WM sets the layout initially but still adjusts if some pager changes 
> it, then there's nothing preventing the WM to become a "pager" as well and 
> act as such WRT the spec.
Yes of course, that's why I asked whether anyone is compliant to that section right now. 
Claiming the manager selection is rather trivial, but I just did not see a point in implementing it just 
for being compliant ;-)

Cheers
Martin

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