On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 17:20, Matt Brubeck wrote: > This sounds like a good short-term fix. In the long run, would it > be reasonable to create a new alternative named gnome-window-manager? > This would be more maintainable as new NETWM-aware window managers > become available.
Well, I think we should name an alternative like that netwm-window-manager. Hm, actually looking at the freedesktop.org site, it looks like they're calling the spec EWMH. Hm. So a better name would probably be "ewmh-x-window-manager". I'll make a policy proposal for this. > We could also have a Provides: netwm-window-manager (or something), and > add a Recommends or Suggests to gnome-session. Hm, that's also probably a good idea.
