On Tue, 2002-08-06 at 21:12, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > Your proposal is based on the assumption that: > > ICCCM < NETWM > > and that obviously netwm should take precedence. But netwm support is only > really useful if the user is using other netwm apps. At the moment (and I do > not really see this changing) this means GNOME, KDE, and other desktop > environments.
Sure. But NETWM support can't hurt, and it makes the desktop environments like GNOME and KDE work (which I might add are extremely popular). > So I see no reason for metacity or kwin to jump to the head of the pack unless > a netwm compliant environment is needed. We're talking about the *default* for x-window-manager. This is something that should work in as many situations as possible. People who want to use a specific window manager generally shouldn't depend on the priority system anyways; they should change the x-window-manger alternative, or just change it in ~/.xsession if they're not the sysadmin.
