On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 09:13:36AM +0200, Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker wrote:
>     4 - Preliminary GNOME compliance (see README.gnome and TODO.gnome)
>       (by Nathan Dushman).

Before anyone sends a message saying "Why doesn't GNOME support work?" I'd
like to clarify that this patch provided support for the GNOME 1.0 window
manager specification, which is now 5 years out of date.  GNOME 2.0 and
later uses a specification developed jointly with the KDE project to allow
window managers to work with both, and I haven't had time to implement it.

If someone is interested in support the current GNOME/KDE window manager
spec, it is here:  http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Standards_2fwm_2dspec 

It should be possible to support basic features of the new specification by
simply by changing a few names; for example, _NET_CLIENT_LIST replaces
_WIN_CLIENT_LIST and _NET_DESKTOP_NAMES replaces _WIN_WORKSPACE_NAMES.

Nathan

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