Re: Proposal: add a _NET_WM_DESKTOP_FILE

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On Wednesday, November 11, 2015 4:00:51 PM CET Thomas L=FCbking wrote:
> More ballsy, please. There's far too many "should" in the netwm spec anyw=
ay.
> Feature is optional, correct usage is not.

ok, will update. Yes, your suggestions sound better.

> Since this points resolution of icons, it should ;-) be specified how the
> icons are resolved, ie. precedence of the XWM hint, NET_WM_ICON or the the
> icon found in the desktop service. The problem is that the window icon
> might differ from the service (application) icon - maybe leading to
> inconsistent representation (if eg. 64x64 is taken from NET_WM_ICON and
> 512x512 from the desktop service, could be *really* nasty if the
> representation juggles between 128 and 130 px and you've a 128px icon from
> NET_WM and a 130px downscaled from the 256px icon gained from the service
> file)
>=20
> I do not object leaving that choice to the WM, but the clients need to be
> aware and we should ;-) suggest resolution behavior strategies.

My opinion is it shouldn't matter for icon resolution. Windows should provi=
de=20
high res icons (yes I know it's a problem....) in the normal way. Let's not=
=20
even start thinking about giving them an excuse to not fix that. And we don=
't=20
want to start forcing all WMs to support this hint.

Cheers
Martin
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