Comment #7 on issue 20587 by [email protected]: Window class for web apps  
should be different from browser window
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=20587

I am all for using whichever method is most-supported by window  
managers. :-P

http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg01549.html is a  
message from an
FVWM developer stating that Pidgin is wrong to use WM_WINDOW_ROLE for  
anything beyond
distinguishing between the different roles that windows within a particular  
instance of
an app can take.  The Pidgin wiki page referred to in that message doesn't  
appear to
exist, so I don't know the Pidgin authors' reasoning or what exactly they  
were doing.

Setting WM_CLASS to something like ("chrome", "gmail-com") doesn't seem  
appropriate
either, at least with a literal reading of the ICCCM
(http://tronche.com/gui/x/icccm/sec-4.html#WM_CLASS), which states that the  
second
string in WM_CLASS "names the general class of applications to which the  
client that
owns this window belongs".  Maybe something like  
("google-chrome-app-gmail-com",
"Google-chrome") would make sense, though.

(Sorry, I don't have enough experience with the history of this to know  
what various
window managers expect to see in these properties.)

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