2008/12/9 Anselm R Garbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 2008/12/9 Neale Pickett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> I very much like this patch. I realized right away that I would never >> again need to restart dwm when I work on my status script. When it >> dies, I can just start it up again without restarting DWM. Someone >> could even have multiple programs running to update the status text. It >> removes the need for the "readin" variable: you either set the property >> or you don't. > > I dislike X properties, however I like your patch a lot and consider > it making mainstream, since it simplifies dwm a lot and fixes a lot of > issues. dwm depends on X anyways, so for the status text mechanism to > happen, it's the simpler method. > >> This would be 40 if the property were hard coded to XA_WM_NAME. I left >> in a comment to use a property named "DWM_STATUS" instead of XA_WM_NAME, >> so people could play with it easily, but I think XA_WM_NAME is >> ultimately the right way to do it. > > XA_WM_NAME is the way to go. >
I have the same opinion. Now that I see the patch it looks so clear that I also vote for its inclusion in main. I was completely wrong about this, my apologies to Mr.Pickett ;) -- - yiyus || JGL .
