On Mon, 25 Apr 2016 07:08:43 +0100 Arnt Gulbrandsen <[email protected]> wrote:
> Steve Litt writes: > > I'm not sure the preceding sentence yields a mutual exclusivity, but > > yes, I really would like that history lesson, as this is something > > that has bothered me for a long time. > > The WM is regulated by the ICCCP, which basically talks about how > windows interact with each other and with the screen. International Conference on Chemistry and Chemical Process? That's what I found for this acronym. > > The early KDE developers held a session at a place called Arnsberg > where the scope of this was hashed out for the KDE. The list on the > whiteboard was 10-15 items long (in general terms, not such details > as fax). I assume you mean this meeting: https://community.kde.org/KDE_Project_History/KDE_One_(Developer_Meeting) Most of the items on the preceding link's "Discussion Results" section don't apply to the software facilitating decoration and handling of windows, so I assume that this discussion is where the concept of "Desktop Environments" was born? SteveT Steve Litt April 2016 featured book: Rapid Learning for the 21st Century http://www.troubleshooters.com/rl21 _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
