A current discussion with the gaim developers about some gaim mis-feature has made me think about abandoning EWMH support completely. In my eyes, the only usefull message it has is the FULLSCREEN stuff. Everything else is just causing trouble.
Reasoning: * Most of the EWMH features are intended to mix applications written for the different desktop environments (DE), e.g. a KDE pager with a GNOME taskbar. * If fvwm is not running under a DE, these features are utterly useless. * If running under a DE, using the DE's pager, taskbar, etc. is not necessary as fvwm has a rich set of these modules. * An increasing number of applications mis-uses the EWMH hints to do funny things. * Most users have *no* chance to control such appications. For example, the problem with SkipMapping and gaim that led to the discussion on the gaim list. It took the user several days to figure out the problem and had to ask the fvwm developers for help. All this leads me to the conclusion that the EWMH spec (at least the client message part) offers very little benefits but causes a huge amount of trouble. It is simply not worth the effort. I vote for abandoning EWMH support (at least the client messages). Opinions? Ciao Dominik ^_^ ^_^ -- Dominik Vogt, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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