On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 11:47:01AM +0200 I heard the voice of Rhialto, and lo! it spake thus: > On Sun 19 Jul 2015 at 11:42:13 +0200, J.O. Aho wrote: > > I have had the impression that the Gnome stuff was for Gnome 1.x > > and it's not been supported since RedHat 8, so if I'm right, > > shouldn't that code be removed? > > That was my impression. As far as I know the Extended Window Manager > Hints were designed to completely replace the Gnome stuff and > everybody who implemented that now implements EWMH. That's why I > disabled the Gnome stuff when I implemented EWMH.
Accords with my understanding (though of course, a lot of that comes from you, so that's cheating ;). I certainly would expect anything new or even not-particularly-new to be talking EWMH instead of GNOME1 (or not having a use for neither). My only concern would be really old stuff that's not updated. I have a suspicion, for instance, that "Gnome 1.x" also means "GTK 1.x". There are probably still a few old programs in that category that people might use here and there. I've never bothered investigating to find out for sure, so maybe I'm just dreaming that. Of course, ctwm-2015 is caring a lot less about speculatively supporting Really Old Stuff than ctwm-2000 did, and that's OK. But this seems like a fairly cheap thing to have around. It's not entirely uninvasive; there's a fair amount of #ifdef GNOME floating around, but it's not as twistedly intertwined as the VMS stuff was. And we be eat that expense whether it's enabled or not, as long as it's still around. -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | [email protected] Systems/Network Administrator | http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/ On the Internet, nobody can hear you scream.
